Virtual: Profiles with Dr. William Thierfelder: The Sonnet

Program Type:

Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Description

For National Poetry Month, this program takes a look at one of the most frequently used poetic forms: the Sonnet. It traces the history of these 14-line gems from their beginnings in Italy during the early Renaissance to the modern period. We will focus on American sonnets of the past two centuries, including Hart Crane’s tribute to Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus’s dedication of Lady Liberty to the world’s tired and poor, as well as sonnets by Longfellow, Very, Tuckerman, Robinson, Frost, Stickney, Wylie and Millay. Here are our Petrarchs and Shakespeares, the American masters who, by living within the strictures of the octave and the sestet, found full voice, enlarged a tradition and changed the sonnet forever.

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