The Modern Irish Sonnet by Tara Guissin-Stubbs

The Modern Irish Sonnet by Tara Guissin-Stubbs

Author:Tara Guissin-Stubbs
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030532420
Publisher: Springer International Publishing


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The association between ‘God’ and the ‘medium of a sonnet’ offers up the ‘medium’ as an almost compulsory channel of both inspiration and restraint.

At the same time however, the drafts to Kavanagh’s sonnets reveal that he often shaped poems that began as something else into the ‘medium of a sonnet’, as if he hadn’t quite exhausted its possibilities. For example, the manuscripts contain a handwritten early version of the eventual sonnet ‘Pursuit of an Ideal’, consisting of its six opening lines:

November is come and I still wait for you

O nimble-footed nymph who slipped me when

I changed you with the power of my will.

I sighted you among some silly men

And vexed my heart to think how very hollow

The winning of a prize like you would be.

Who gave



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