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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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As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
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Co-written with The Office executive producer Ben Silverman, The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin is described as a comedic retelling of the classic poem, featuring a visit from Steve Carell’s Michael Scott as Santa and narrated by Baumgartner’s Kevin Malone.Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 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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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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However, an eco-friendly fireworks show replaced traditional fireworks in Ayodhya, complementing the celebration with a laser show depicting scenes from the Ramayana, an ancient Hindu epic.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 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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There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
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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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“English sonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/English%20sonnet. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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