The big three in sonnet sequences from the Elizabethan time zone were Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser. Of course, the Bard is the General Motors of the bunch. Spenser’s a Chrysler. But I’ll take Philip Sidney, my Model T. The complete “Astrophel and Stella” can be test-driven here.
BEFORE AND AFTER
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) wrote two rather similar yet effective autumn
verses. Though he would have called them “haiku” because of his revisionist
tendenc...
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Roger, I love your improv. Suburu indeed.
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