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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
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So there is a series of words or linguistic tropes for every single play, every poem cycle, every sonnet.Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
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Western governments and civil society should encourage the creative potential of Russian exiles, from the social scientists and journalists making sense of Putinism to the poets writing sonnets and the painters producing still lifes.Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
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Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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For those who make the trek, the week will be filled with events ranging from the pastoral to the glamourous to the overtly highbrow.Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2024
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Healy wrote and read aloud a poem about the couple’s relationship, gleaned from loving insights shared by family and friends.Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
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The poet also had an original poem commissioned by NASA that was launched into space on the Europa Clipper mission earlier this month.Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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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
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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The remake of the 1970s sci-fi epic perfectly encapsulates Patriot Act-era politics, in the way the series' military and political leaders, played by Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, respond to an attack on humanity by its robot creations.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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The most famous Mary of all time (with all due respect to Wilson, J. Blige, and Tyler Moore) is getting her own Biblical coming-of-age epic, just as her famous son has had over the years.Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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In countless interviews, Joel has mused that the waltzing chord progression is monotonous and the lyrics akin to limericks.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
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“English sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/English%20sonnet. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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