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Why the Sonnet?
Petrarch, Shakespeare, Meredith, Browning, Millay, McKay, Hacker, Hayes: What is it that keeps poets returning to this form? What is it about 14 lines of rhyming metrical verse that has kept the form alive, through thousands of variations, for something like 5 centuries? Participants should be prepared to write. If you have a rhyming dictionary, bring it along.
Instructor: Marilyn Nelson
Class Type: 1 Session
Poetry, VisitingStart Date: 01/11/2020
Days of the Week: Saturday
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 15
$81.00
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Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson’s honors include the Frost Medal, NSK Neustadt Award, and Ruth Lilly Prize. She was Poet Laureate of Connecticut, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and Poet-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.