A01=Ralph Mcinerny
Author_Ralph Mcinerny
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Product details
- ISBN 9781890318901
- Weight: 122g
- Dimensions: 114 x 181mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2001
- Publisher: St Augustine's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 'Shakespearean Variations', Ralph McInerny takes the first lines of the sonnets and their end rhymes, and composes sonnets of his own. The formal structure of the sonnet has always provided a salutary discipline for the poet-iambic pentameter, te delicate symmetry of octet and sextet, the losing couplet which epitomizes the poem. The stamp that Shakespeare put upon the form, the themes of love and death, age and youth, loyalty and betrayal, have come to seem to adhere to the very form. The pleasure to be had form reading 'Shakespearean Variations' will vary with one's acquaintance with the originals buth should always turn one to the bard himself.
