A SPENSERIAN SONNET
Limited to 100 copies and a handful of "Presentation" copies, The Lord John Press issued "A Spenserian Sonnet" in 1983.
In keeping with this tradition, Parker produced a work which is presented as if written by Spenser of his "Lady Love," Susan."
Pictured to the right is a "Presentation Edition" of this piece from my personal collection.
Click on the image for a full size image.
A sonnet is a lyric poem in a single stanza consisting of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. Petrarch (1304-1374) is the poet who is credited with popularizing the Italian sonnet form. Legend has is that when Petrarch saw a young married woman, Laura, he fell in love with her. Feeling compelled to express his feelings without arousing her husband's suspicions, he penned 366 sonnetos to an anonymous Laura. These sonnets fall into two main parts: an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). The typical rhyme scheme used was abbaabbacdcdcd with a slight turn of thought that occurs after the eighth line (called volta in Italian). This turn could represent another side of the initial statement or simply be an extension of the idea proposed in the first part.
Limited to 100 copies and a handful of "Presentation" copies, The Lord John Press issued "A Spenserian Sonnet" in 1983.
In keeping with this tradition, Parker produced a work which is presented as if written by Spenser of his "Lady Love," Susan."
Pictured to the right is a "Presentation Edition" of this piece from my personal collection.
Click on the image for a full size image.
A sonnet is a lyric poem in a single stanza consisting of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. Petrarch (1304-1374) is the poet who is credited with popularizing the Italian sonnet form. Legend has is that when Petrarch saw a young married woman, Laura, he fell in love with her. Feeling compelled to express his feelings without arousing her husband's suspicions, he penned 366 sonnetos to an anonymous Laura. These sonnets fall into two main parts: an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). The typical rhyme scheme used was abbaabbacdcdcd with a slight turn of thought that occurs after the eighth line (called volta in Italian). This turn could represent another side of the initial statement or simply be an extension of the idea proposed in the first part.
