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Pop Sonnets

Author : Erik Didriksen

Publisher : Quirk Books

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 28,76 MB

Release : 2015-10-06

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1594748292

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A Goodreads Choice Award nominee The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others. An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike. “Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME



Love Songs and Sonnets

Author : Peter Washington

Publisher : Everyman's Library

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 26,89 MB

Release : 1997-01-28

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0679454659

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The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband." Shakespeare is here, of course, and Burnas, whose comparison of his love to a red, red rose remains one of the most celebrated of all poetic similes. This edition also includes a variety of delights by everyone from Thomas Wyatt to Langston Hughes, from Aphra Behn to John Updike. With a Foreword by Peter Washington, and an index of first lines.



Sonnets and Songs

Author : Mary Jane Mathews Adams

Publisher :

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 41,16 MB

Release : 1901

Category : American poetry

ISBN :

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Songs of Innocence

Author : William Blake

Publisher :

Page : 35 pages

File Size : 42,71 MB

Release : 1789

Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts

ISBN :

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Songs and Sonnets

Author : Paul Muldoon

Publisher : eBook Partnership

Page : 47 pages

File Size : 23,1 MB

Release : 2013-03-26

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1907587608

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In this selection from five years' worth of lyrics, accompanied by recent sonnets, Paul Muldoon recalls the bardic traditions of his homeland where songs and poems exist somewhere in between Parnassus and Tin Pan Alley.







Time's Whisperings

Author : George Barlow

Publisher :

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 26,97 MB

Release : 1880

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