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Who Wrote Curtail Sonnets?
Who Wrote Curtail Sonnets?
James H. Sterling••6 min read
The name given by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins was influenced by the Welsh language, which he had acquired while studying theology at St Beuno's near St Asaph. The poetic forms of Welsh literature and particularly cynghanedd, with its emphasis on repeating sounds, accorded with his own style and became a prominent feature of his work.
(1844–89) to a curtailed form of the sonnet which he invented. The curtal sonnet has ten lines with an additional half-line at the end. Hopkins wrote two of these: 'Peace' and 'Pied Beauty'.
Who has invented curtal sonnet and sprung rhythm?
The curtal sonnet is a form invented by Gerard Manley Hopkins, and used in three of his poems.
What is curtain sonnet?
Curtal sonnet, a curtailed or contracted sonnet. It refers specifically to a sonnet of 11 lines rhyming abcabc dcbdc or abcabc dbcdc with the last line a tail, or half a line.
