English sonnet

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Noun
  • The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.
    Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Believing his prognosis was terminal, Fenn originally planned to write the puzzle poem, hide the treasure, and eventually hike back out to that same location and take his own life, hoping someone would one day discover the riches that remained at his final resting spot.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The private, invite-only club is rumored to have gotten its name from an Alfred Tennyson poem of the same name meaning that the club is open all hours and the conversation flows forever, the City Journal reported in 1992.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.
    Christian Lewis, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • From cooperative platformers to historical epics, NPR staff and contributors have rounded up the latest from the best and biggest games of 2025 so far.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Nowhere was that more true than at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, where Manchester City and Chelsea played out their third game in a four-match epic.
    Jessy Parker Humphreys, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
Noun
  • Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
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