tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post1533901297881263149..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: THE BRILLIANCE OF WORDSDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-49981356833292825052011-10-18T15:38:39.483-07:002011-10-18T15:38:39.483-07:00It is beautiful, Cinta!!It is beautiful, Cinta!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-43090278021862692982011-10-14T09:35:05.893-07:002011-10-14T09:35:05.893-07:00My absolute favourite is Sonnet 116 by William Sha...My absolute favourite is Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare, and when I saw it was quoted in the film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility by Emma Thompson, since Jane Austen is my favourite author, I loved it even more :D<br /><br />SONNET 116<br /><br />Let me not to the marriage of true minds<br />Admit impediments. Love is not love<br />Which alters when it alteration finds,<br />Or bends with the remover to remove:<br />O no! it is an ever-fixed mark <br />That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br />It is the star to every wandering bark,<br />Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.<br />Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks <br />Within his bending sickle's compass come: <br />Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, <br />But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br /> If this be error and upon me proved,<br /> I never writ, nor no man ever loved.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00432541983682527590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-45585421227117683232011-10-13T06:37:36.949-07:002011-10-13T06:37:36.949-07:00I agree MM...there were fabulous poets everywhere....I agree MM...there were fabulous poets everywhere...I just kept it to English, since that's what I write...but the others are masters also!!! Thanks for posting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-54335239922962358162011-10-13T00:31:20.159-07:002011-10-13T00:31:20.159-07:00Very glad to see someone else talking about the in...Very glad to see someone else talking about the influence of poetry on their fiction and thought. I think we underestimate the degree to which poetry was, in the past, the voice of the heart. It's not surprising of course when one recognises that much of a gentleman's education was poetry--Greek or Latin--but still. And composition in poetry was a 'normal' mode of thought for anyone with an education--Beau Brummell used to compose rather neat epigrams, for example. For myself, I'd have to put Sir Thomas Wyatt in amongst the top influences. And of course, Byron--though I detest him as a person--he was a superlative poet and it was a line of his from Don Juan, which stuck with me for years which became the title of my second book: Of Honest Fame. I just couldn't get past the truth of his words without stopping: "The drying up a single tear has more/Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore..." The French and German poets weren't slackers though either--Ruckert is rather fine and I doubt anyone can touch Ronsard for assonant beauty. Cheers -- MMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-34826094811408994252011-10-12T12:31:23.982-07:002011-10-12T12:31:23.982-07:00Hi, Robin!! I remember when you critiqued that fir...Hi, Robin!! I remember when you critiqued that first chapter you commented about how my character liking poets was odd, but since he's odd, I felt it worked for the book! Thanks for dropping by!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-1681236541370438642011-10-12T12:15:47.515-07:002011-10-12T12:15:47.515-07:00I had no idea how the poets inspired you when you ...I had no idea how the poets inspired you when you wrote "Second Chances". This gives a new depth to a book I already enjoyed. I've never been much into poetry, but your blog, and the ensuing comments have made me consider pulling out some of my old books and giving them a new look. Thanks!Robin Haseltinehttp://www.robinhaseltine.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-16491008055360703492011-10-12T11:00:29.564-07:002011-10-12T11:00:29.564-07:00Suzan...I came so close to quoting William Shakepe...Suzan...I came so close to quoting William Shakepeare's Sonnet 18...I absolutely love it!!<br /><br />Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?<br />Thou art more lovely and more temperate;<br />Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,<br />And summer's lease hath all too short a date;<br />Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,<br />And often is his gold complexion dimm'd...<br /><br />Words to swoon by!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-57887757052427922292011-10-12T10:58:24.169-07:002011-10-12T10:58:24.169-07:00Thanks, Peter, I love sonnet 23!!!Thanks, Peter, I love sonnet 23!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-4711337176585734502011-10-12T10:44:54.052-07:002011-10-12T10:44:54.052-07:00I admit I bought a giant The Complete Works of Sha...I admit I bought a giant The Complete Works of Shakespeare just for Sonnet 18.Suzan Hardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600258874634909988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-90487317244240601872011-10-12T10:00:41.015-07:002011-10-12T10:00:41.015-07:00O, let my books be, then, the eloquence
And dumb p...O, let my books be, then, the eloquence<br />And dumb presagers of my speaking breast;<br />Who plead for love, and look for recompense,<br />More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.<br />O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:<br />To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.<br /><br />W. Shakespeare<br /><br />Thank you for your inspiring postPeter St Johnhttp://www.peterstjohn.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-77278679326594076832011-10-12T09:21:58.868-07:002011-10-12T09:21:58.868-07:00I suppose Gerard Manley Hopkins is my favorite poe...I suppose Gerard Manley Hopkins is my favorite poet... but there are so many. Thanks for posting something by Crashaw. I have his complete poetry, but have hardly opened it since taking a 17th C poetry course long ago.Barbara Monajemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06740868750916582900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-41291717439288288052011-10-12T07:43:37.552-07:002011-10-12T07:43:37.552-07:00Sophia, I too found most of the poetry I enjoy lat...Sophia, I too found most of the poetry I enjoy later in life...I don't think I appreciated it as much when I was younger! Thanks for stopping by!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-81740537221743869662011-10-12T07:42:49.414-07:002011-10-12T07:42:49.414-07:00Thanks, Teresa!! I love 'a mad, passionate lo...Thanks, Teresa!! I love 'a mad, passionate love affair with words'...that's a wonderful way of saying it!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-6680166932297824022011-10-12T07:33:25.362-07:002011-10-12T07:33:25.362-07:00I enjoyed your posting and agree about the poignan...I enjoyed your posting and agree about the poignancy of words. I am a late bloomer in the poetry appreciation department, but now I keep an old anthology of British poets by my bed.<br />Thanks!Sophia Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01389029835067242765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-48199461309877877072011-10-12T03:56:42.147-07:002011-10-12T03:56:42.147-07:00I can understand your feelings completely. I'...I can understand your feelings completely. I've always had a mad, passionate love affair with words. Thanks, Tess St. John, author of the historical romance series, Chances Are,for sharing your feelings on the Brilliance of Words.Teresa Thomas Bohannonhttp://www.ladysilk.netnoreply@blogger.com