FCS wrote:
>
> I find the
>> discipline of the sonnet a pleasant challenge although I have only
written in
>> the Shakespearean format.
>
> Well, it's certainly the time of year for it.
Is it? I was referring to the form by the way, not the style.
> Are you aware of any traditions of sonnets
> in celebration/preparation of the winter
> solstice?
That might depend on what 'tradition' means in this case. Certainly such
sonnets exist. Would you be the sort of person who celebrates solstices?
> I hope to attempt something Petrarchan perhaps by the
>> turn of the year when I may have some time available.
>
> I shall look out some translations in the mean-
> time then. It's been on my mental to-study list
> for far longer than I would really like to admit.
Translations? What did you have in mind?
I will be writing them in English, assuming I do find the time.
>
> I remember a retired artist, by which I mean someone
> I knew who was a hobbyist throughout their life and
> dedicated more time to it in retirement, rather than
> someone who made a living at it, from whom I learnt
> how true it is that a painting is never "finished".
In the case of signed paintings, they are usually considered finished when
the
signature is added and they are exhibited or sold I think. It is a very
long
time since I painted.
>
> In other words, you can always hone it.
>
Given the brevity of Haiku, it is sometimes more profitable to begin
again, but
certainly I would agree that one can hone a larger work up to the point of
publication, and 'new' revised versions are not unheard of even after
that.
>
> Oh, BTW, I'm really nowhere near so up myself in
> person as you might think going purely on prose.
>
In my experience, people are seldom as they appear to be on the Internet,
although I can confirm one or two exceptions over the years.
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Blue Sow
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