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(Summary by Alan Mapstone)]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2550</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bowles,chiefly,cleric,coleridge,favour,journeys,lisle,reverend,sonnets,wordsworth</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/123e0b6394d0bc2d0c00a2d399502ab8.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Sonnets - William Lisle Bowles</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/sonnets-william-lisle-bowles--72895198</link><description><![CDATA[This is a collection of Julia Caroline Dorr's Sonnets, from her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72895198</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:49:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72895198/sonnets_william_lisle_bowles.mp3" length="20399156" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/178a2b07-6de4-42b2-98f9-c67534ae9e05/178a2b07-6de4-42b2-98f9-c67534ae9e05.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/178a2b07-6de4-42b2-98f9-c67534ae9e05/178a2b07-6de4-42b2-98f9-c67534ae9e05.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/178a2b07-6de4-42b2-98f9-c67534ae9e05/178a2b07-6de4-42b2-98f9-c67534ae9e05.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>William Lisle Bowles</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This is a collection of Julia Caroline Dorr's Sonnets, from her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is a collection of Julia Caroline Dorr's Sonnets, from her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2550</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>audio,audiobook,carolin,caroline,collected,dorr,julia,listen,poems,sonnets</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/123e0b6394d0bc2d0c00a2d399502ab8.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Sonnets - William Lisle Bowles</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/sonnets-william-lisle-bowles--72895197</link><description><![CDATA[James Russell Lowell's extensive poetic work also includes a series of Sonnets. Some of those have already been included in the volumes Early Poems and Miscellaneous Poems, but 27 of his Sonnets are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72895197</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72895197/sonnets_william_lisle_bowles.mp3" length="20399156" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/bf09e06e-b4f7-4d0a-bd9e-31c117ab6eb3/bf09e06e-b4f7-4d0a-bd9e-31c117ab6eb3.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/bf09e06e-b4f7-4d0a-bd9e-31c117ab6eb3/bf09e06e-b4f7-4d0a-bd9e-31c117ab6eb3.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/bf09e06e-b4f7-4d0a-bd9e-31c117ab6eb3/bf09e06e-b4f7-4d0a-bd9e-31c117ab6eb3.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>William Lisle Bowles</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>James Russell Lowell's extensive poetic work also includes a series of Sonnets. Some of those have already been included in the volumes Early Poems and Miscellaneous Poems, but 27 of his Sonnets are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[James Russell Lowell's extensive poetic work also includes a series of Sonnets. Some of those have already been included in the volumes Early Poems and Miscellaneous Poems, but 27 of his Sonnets are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2550</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>already,carolin,collected,extensive,lowell,miscellaneous,poems,poetic,russell,sonnets</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/123e0b6394d0bc2d0c00a2d399502ab8.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Sonnets - William Lisle Bowles</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/sonnets-william-lisle-bowles--72895186</link><description><![CDATA[It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, though, resemble the narrow confines of a loaded pistol (with a silencer), at the end of which the reader feels propelled to a higher emotional plane. Nevertheless, the predominant mood is melancholy, regret for the brevity of life and especially for the death of her husband. Today’s world can accept more readily than her own the feminism of her poetry and her casual but touching references to love outside of marriage. Millay’s syntax can become challenging, but her most profound utterances are simply phrased (“I do not think I would”) and often startlingly colloquial: “you may whistle for me.” Millay does not follow exclusively the Shakespearean or the Italian rhyme scheme in her sonnets but varies at will. Her iambic meter is (except as indicated below) as strict as Milton’s, with the same love of enjambment and inverted feet to obscure rhymes and to create bouncing rhythms and sudden turns. Her handling of the sonnet form departs rarely but sometimes radically from tradition, as when a heptameter line (of seven feet) replaces the pentameter at the end of a sonnet, a regular feature of the final lines of “Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree”; e.g., “And some old catalogue, and a brown, shriveled apple core.” She also permits an extrametrical weak syllable at the caesura and occasional other weak, nearly negligible syllables elsewhere, usually justified as pronounceable elisions, like “risen” (ris’n), “blossoming” (bloss’ming), “enemy” (en’my); yet sometimes not, like “ne(ver),” “ult(i)mate,” “flat(tened).” (Summary by T. A. 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Some of Millay’s sonnets, though, resemble the narrow confines of a loaded pistol (with a silencer), at the end of which the reader feels...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, though, resemble the narrow confines of a loaded pistol (with a silencer), at the end of which the reader feels propelled to a higher emotional plane. Nevertheless, the predominant mood is melancholy, regret for the brevity of life and especially for the death of her husband. Today’s world can accept more readily than her own the feminism of her poetry and her casual but touching references to love outside of marriage. Millay’s syntax can become challenging, but her most profound utterances are simply phrased (“I do not think I would”) and often startlingly colloquial: “you may whistle for me.” Millay does not follow exclusively the Shakespearean or the Italian rhyme scheme in her sonnets but varies at will. Her iambic meter is (except as indicated below) as strict as Milton’s, with the same love of enjambment and inverted feet to obscure rhymes and to create bouncing rhythms and sudden turns. Her handling of the sonnet form departs rarely but sometimes radically from tradition, as when a heptameter line (of seven feet) replaces the pentameter at the end of a sonnet, a regular feature of the final lines of “Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree”; e.g., “And some old catalogue, and a brown, shriveled apple core.” She also permits an extrametrical weak syllable at the caesura and occasional other weak, nearly negligible syllables elsewhere, usually justified as pronounceable elisions, like “risen” (ris’n), “blossoming” (bloss’ming), “enemy” (en’my); yet sometimes not, like “ne(ver),” “ult(i)mate,” “flat(tened).” (Summary by T. A. 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This collection is taken from Naden's complete poems, and whether listeners enjoy French history or the natural world, there are subjects to appeal to all tastes.- Summary by Newgatenovelist]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72895185</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:48:42 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72895185/sonnets_william_lisle_bowles.mp3" length="20399156" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/129cc465-1900-44fa-b4d4-02af1583b5f2/129cc465-1900-44fa-b4d4-02af1583b5f2.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/129cc465-1900-44fa-b4d4-02af1583b5f2/129cc465-1900-44fa-b4d4-02af1583b5f2.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/129cc465-1900-44fa-b4d4-02af1583b5f2/129cc465-1900-44fa-b4d4-02af1583b5f2.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>William Lisle Bowles</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. 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