30-Second Literature by Ella Berthoud

Author:Ella Berthoud
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Ivy Press
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

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MODERN LITERATURE

MODERNIST LITERATURE

POSTMODERNISM

3-SECOND BIBLIOGRAPHY

‘THIS IS JUST TO SAY’

1934

William Carlos Williams

‘THIS IS MY NAME’

1970

Adonis

‘FLYING’

1971

Chinua Achebe

‘CHINATOWN DIPTYCH’

2018

Jenny Xie

30-SECOND TEXT

Lucien Young

Walt Whitman is known as ‘the father of free verse’; he revised his anthology Leaves of Grass multiple times throughout his life.

SONNET

the 30-second thesis

The sonnet was invented in thirteenth-century Italy, most likely developed from a type of folk song (the word itself comes from the Italian sonetto, or ‘little song’). The greatest early sonneteer was Petrarch, whose verses were written in iambic pentameter and followed a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDCDCD. As such, the Italian form is known as the Petrarchan sonnet. During the sixteenth century, the sonnet was transplanted to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard. Rhymes being less common in English, the structure was adjusted to require fewer of them: the English (or Shakespearean) sonnet goes ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This version became immensely popular at the Tudor Court, its formal constraints enabling poets to showcase their skills. The Elizabethan era saw the creation of long sonnet ‘cycles’, such as Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella and, most famously, Shakespeare’s. The English sonnet declined around the time of the Restoration, but reemerged in the Romantic era and then the twentieth century, when many examples were written worldwide. Modern poets often engage in sonnetry, playing with its formal constraints and cultural cachet. Patience Agbabi, a British poet of Nigerian descent, uses the form to explore sexuality, transnational identity and attitudes to the literary past.

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