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curtal sonnet   Quick reference

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)

... sonnet The name given by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844–89 ) to a curtailed form of the sonnet which he invented. The curtal sonnet has ten lines with an additional half-line at the end. Hopkins wrote two of these: ‘Peace’ and ‘Pied...

Curtal Sonnet   Reference library

L. R. Spaar

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

... Sonnet . In the preface to his Poems , G. M. Hopkins coins the name “curtal-sonnet” for “Pied Beauty” and “Peace,” poems “constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6, with however a halfline tailpiece.” Feeney calls Hopkins’s concern with the mathematical proportions of these sonnets “playful,” noting that the word curtal not only means curtailed, or shortened, but once referred to animals with their tails cut short. The curtal sonnet is, as Hirsch and Boland point out, “three-fourths of a Petrarchan...

sonnet   Quick reference

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)

...poets, G. M. Hopkins ’s curtal sonnets of 10½ lines, and the 16-line sonnets of George Meredith ’s sequence Modern Love ( 1862 ). Further reading: Michael R. G. Spiller , The Development of the Sonnet (1992) ; Stephen Burt and David Mikics , The Art of the Sonnet (2010) ; A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (2011). http://www.sonnets.org Sonnet Central: archive of sonnets with historical notes and...

In Memoriam Stanza   Reference library

A. Preminger and E. T. Johnston

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

..., Tennyson used the stanza in a few political poems. Early fragments of In Memoriam employ an abab stanza. The abba form evokes traditional love poetry by recalling the octave of the Petrarchan sonnet . The “measured” lang. of the tetrameter line, in contrast to the pentameter line of sonnets, produces a sense of something lost; the line’s curtness suggests the poet’s skepticism about the efficacy of lang. to express feeling and meaning, and implies an effort toward self-control. Later uses of the stanza are rare; they include Oscar Wilde ’s...

O’Driscoll, Denis (1954–2012)   Reference library

Heather Yeung

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)

...that ‘form and rhythm … can somehow confer higher destiny and density on even the most workaday words’. A concern with mortality is an undercurrent to the work, yet a strong sense of irony dispels any possibility of sentimentality. The Bottom Line (Dedalus, 1994 ) is a curtal sonnet sequence which wryly addresses the aesthetic cost of the banalities of office life in ‘Celtic Tiger’ Dublin. Yet O’Driscoll sits well within a wider European context. George * Szirtes has commented on the influence of writers such as Zbigniew Herbert , Miroslav Holub ,...

Heaney, Seamus (1939–2013)   Reference library

Blake Morrison

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2 ed.)

...and death; at its most pious, a merely sentimental affection for a disappearing, peasant-simple world. Beyond the rustic homage can be glimpsed Heaney's anxiety about how he can best keep faith with the values of his tribe and ancestors while not lapsing into their grunting curtness and silence. Similar concerns were brought to a head by political events in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, as Heaney, in solidarity with his fellow Catholics during the civil-rights marches, bombings, and terrorism of the Troubles, found himself searching ‘for images and...

crack v. ²   Reference library

Green's Dictionary of Slang

...it after him. 1972 Nova Apr. 90: The mean bugger never cracked one of those bottles for the lads. 1984 W. Diehl Hooligans ( 2003 ) 14: He cracked the window and let the smoke stream out. 1997 Simon & Burns Corner ( 1998 ) 5: Blue cracks the door, then gives way; Curt slips inside. 1997 (con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman ( 1998 ) 168: He cracked a beer for Clay. 2002 ‘ Touré ’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 11: The gang pulled into the side of Freedom and cracked the hood. 2008 T. Dorsey Atomic Lobster 61: Coleman and ...

Bibliography, Selected   Reference library

Green's Dictionary of Slang

...1999] —— The 600lb Gorilla (New York 1987) [Sarasota, FL 1999] —— Sweet La-La Land (New York 1990) [Sarasota, FL 1999] —— The Wizard of La-La Land (New York 1995) [Sarasota, FL 1999] Canfield, Chauncey L. The Diary of a Forty-Niner (New York/San Francisco 1906) ‘ Cannon, Curt ’ (pseud. Evan Hunter) I Like 'Em Tough (New York 1958) Cape Argus (Cape Town 1857– ) Cape Times (Cape Town 1876– ) Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany's (New York 1958) [London 1961] Carew, Bampfylde Moore The Gypsey of the Glen (London 1830) —— Life and Adventures of...

Caudate Sonnet   Reference library

T.V.F. Brogan and L. R. Spaar

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

...especially Hopkins’s so-called curtal sonnet . See tail rhyme . Bibliography J. S. Smart , The Sonnets of Milton (1921) ; J. Dubu , “Le Sonetto caudato de Michel-Ange à Milton,” Le Sonnet à la Renaissance , ed. Y. Bellenger (1988) ; J. Feeney , The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2008) ; The Making of a Sonnet , ed. E. Hirsch and E. Boland (2008). T.V.F. Brogan ; L. R....

Sonnet   Reference library

T.V.F. Brogan, L. J. Zillman, C. Scott, and J. Lewin

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

...the sonnet are the following: alternating , where the tercets alternate with the quatrains ( Catulle Mendès ); caudate , with “tails” of added lines ( G. M. Hopkins , Albert Samain , R. M. Rilke ); chained or linked , each line beginning with the last word of the previous line; continuous, iterating , or monorhymed on one or two rhyme sounds throughout ( Giacomo da Lentini , Stéphane Mallarmé , Edmund Gosse ); corona , a series joined together by theme (It.) or rhyme or repeated lines (Sp. and Eng., e.g., John Donne ) for panegyric ; curtal , a...

Genre   Reference library

M. Cavitch

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

...sometimes it is, in fact, the more radical deviations—such as G. M. Hopkins ’s curtal sonnets and Alexander Pushkin ’s Onegin stanzas (also known as “Pushkin sonnets”)—that are most effective at drawing fresh attention to the durability of received conventions. Identifying such variations, though it may sometimes seem like a very specialized, even trivial, technical matter, has significant consequences for literary hist., crit., and theory. Shakespeare’s sonnet 126, e.g., quite self-consciously stops two lines short of the conventional 14,...

Emotion   Reference library

L. D. Lerner and J. Robinson

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)

...in that the latter view would tend, implicitly, to deny the aesthetic emotion: it is real pity and real terror that are to be felt. In mod. times, the aesthetic emotion is denied by those who repudiate an ivory-tower or esoteric view of lit.: by Marxists; by Richards (who says curtly that “psychology has no place for such an entity” in Principles of Literary Criticism ); and, in effect, by Dewey, who, though he uses the term “aesthetic emotion,” complains that those who believe in “an emotion that is aboriginally aesthetic … relegate fine art to a realm...