With wit and in the voice of an angry cat (because the poet slept too late), Jones brings together God and cats in the sonnet form. Donne’s “Holy Sonnets” is one of his most dramatic devotional lyrics. Donne wrote 19 “Holy Sonnets” in direct address to God, and he employed violent and sexual imagery. Poet, Mollycat Jones (Christine Potter), in her title is riffing off of metaphysical poet, John Donne’s “Holy Sonnets or Divine Meditations” originally published in the first edition of his Songs and Sonnets (1633). The title is also a reference to Les Lettres Portugaises (1669).Amongst contemporary poets, the sonnet is alive and well! Before we get into specifics about the history, traditions and forms of the sonnet, let’s look at a contemporary example & think about the various ways poets continue to work in the form, as well as break with it’s traditions and “rules.” Here is a link to Mollycat Jones’ “Unholy Sonnet Number One.” Follow this link: “Unholy Sonnet Number One” by Mollycat Jones She initially planned to title the collection " Sonnets translated from the Bosnian", but Robert Browning proposed that she claim their source was Portuguese, probably because of her admiration for Camões and Robert's nickname for her: "my little Portuguese". To offer the couple some privacy, she decided to publish them as if they were translations of foreign sonnets. However, her husband Robert Browning insisted they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them.
Despite what the title implies, the sonnets are entirely Browning's own, and not translated from Portuguese.īarrett Browning was initially hesitant to publish the poems, believing they were too personal.
The collection was acclaimed and popular during the poet's lifetime and it remains so. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Sonnets from the Portuguese, published by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. Phoebe Anna Traquair's illuminated copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese – Sonnet 30. ( March 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.
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