{"id":4557,"date":"2008-08-20T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2010-02-22T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T21:05:34","slug":"book-report-love-sonnets-selected-by-louis-untermeyer-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/20\/book-report-love-sonnets-selected-by-louis-untermeyer-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Love Sonnets selected by Louis Untermeyer (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small collection of sonnet&#8217;s greatest hits, sort of.  About 25 of them, from Browning to Shakespeare and Petrarch.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the poems appear in a handwritten font (calligraphy, the credits call it) and they have &#8220;illustrations&#8221; on the left page of each.  The font hurt my eyes, and I ignored the illustrations totally.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I enjoyed some of the poems (again, in many cases, as the major ones are anthologized everywhere else).  A couple points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Translated poems, especially those in tight forms like sonnets, probably come through very garbled from the original.\n<\/li>\n<li>Based on these sonnets, I might have been one of the best sonneteers of the late 20th century before I retired.  If I could get my two year old to illustrate the book, I could probably match this volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, the volume probably isn&#8217;t worth your time unless you really dig eye-crossing simulated handwriting.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000FVKLR6&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small collection of sonnet&#8217;s greatest hits, sort of. About 25 of them, from Browning to Shakespeare and Petrarch. Unfortunately, the poems appear in a handwritten font (calligraphy, the credits call it) and they have &#8220;illustrations&#8221; on the left page of each. The font hurt my eyes, and I ignored the illustrations totally. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}