Sonnets - Paperback - 9781519747730

A first collection of Sonnets on Eros and Philos: Though many minds more brilliant and more trained Have set their pens to write iambic lines On grander themes than these, and some - so famed The form is named after these kings of rimes. But neither Petrach nor the Bard were first To school this metre; neither were they last - For near eight centuries have now rehearsed The arguments which have not been surpassed. So in these fourteen lines of six and eight One hundred-forty syllables complete By craft that carries verse inadequate On metaphors of such iambic feet - To Poesy's great Olympus - whose words reign O'er love and wisdom, which these leafs contain.

• | Author: Tristan Stone
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 64 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 151974773X
• | ISBN-13: 9781519747730