(n.) A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt.
(v. i.) To compose sonnets.
Example Sentences:
(1) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(2) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(3) Duffy has yet to reveal which metre her gas poem will be in, though for her first poem in the laureate role she tackled the subject of MPs expenses in the form of a sonnet.
(4) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
(5) The world's most beautiful sonnet was composed by someone who had shit hanging out of their bum shortly afterwards.
(6) Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, has of recent years become as popular a recitation at weddings as recitals of Frank Sinatra’s My Way at funerals.
(7) Although it has supplied some “slow news day” fodder the Shakespeare-sex-and-sonnet issue is by no means new.
(8) Sir Antony said it had been a "sweet and simple" ceremony, during which he delivered a speech from Cyrano de Bergerac and Mr Doran read a Shakespeare sonnet.
(9) ‘I want to go back to my country and teach people’ Majd Haaj Hassan is as quick with a Shakespeare quotation, reeling off Sonnet XVIII in a grubby refugee camp, as he is with a political analysis of Syria’s woes.
(10) Over the past year or so I have been talking about these things on and off with the composer Sally Beamish ; she has been setting some poems of mine (sonnets, again) for a new oratorio called Equal Voices, that the London Symphony Orchestra will premiere at the Barbican next month .
(11) There are infinitely more in Italian – the home of the sonnet.
(12) Websites dedicated to the reclusive author, who wrote her first sonnet at the age of 13, are packed with speculation about the new novel and with wistful hopes that it will live up to the high quality of The Secret History.
(13) To suggest that the formal constraints of crime fiction prevent its practitioners from producing good novels “is as foolish as to say that no sonnet can be great poetry since a sonnet is restricted to 14 lines”, she argued .
(14) We did a few things for events in the royal calendar, and a couple of larger and independent commissions as well: he set the five sonnets I wrote about Harry Patch , drawing on his own childhood war memories, and I wrote six more sonnets to drop between the movements of his String Quartet No 7, which is a meditation on the architect Francesco Borromini.
(15) He was critical of Rupert Brooke's "begloried sonnets", which seemed to him "commonplace", finding their romantic lyricism inappropriate to the ugliness and horror he encountered in wartime France.
(16) This article compares Shakespeare's sonnets with those written by Richard Barnfield in order to examine the possibility of homoerotic subjectivity in early Renaissance England.
(17) Sonnets, one should note in passing, are hard to read – particularly as they move on to the “sestet”, or last six lines.
(18) This paper explores the relationship between Keats's ballad, "La Belle Dame sans Merci," and some of its precursors, including one of the poet's dreams and a sonnet titled "On a Dream."
(19) However, he also came away with a pair of Royal Crown Derby candlesticks and a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets contained in a specially commissioned leather and gilt box, made by the Royal Bindery.
(20) "First of all, I would launch a 200-billion-pound programme that will teach horses how to write sonnets.
Writer
Definition:
(n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
(n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
(n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(2) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
(3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
(4) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(5) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(6) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(7) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(8) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(9) From a study bearing upon 26 patients suffering from a cerebral circulatory insufficiency induced by a stenosis or a thrombosis, the writers analyse the part played by Hyperbare Oxygen in the neurologic evolution.
(10) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(11) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(12) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(13) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
(14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(15) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
(16) "Obviously [writers in translation] have a disadvantage and there's no sense pretending they don't, of being read in translation," said Gekoski.
(17) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(18) Do you feel you were thought of at one stage as a political writer, at a very early stage?
(19) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(20) This affected the outcome of the study so that the differences of the two groups of patients were not as significant as perceived by the writer.