| Sonnets In Thessal Wood Alone I Wandere Look e'en now, as the sun doth part the sky Would that could I always upon her gaze O! how those locks of lustrous midnight deep Who would serve Reason and not her smile sweet? |
Miscellany The Dying Shepherd to His Love Know This Old Castle Welle |
"if ever any beauty i did see, / which i desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dreame of thee"
-John Donne , "The Good-Morrow ," ca. 1600 (ll. 6-7)
While I mainly prefer the works of the troubadours, Middle English lyricists, and Geoffrey Chaucer, I find myself from time to time interested in various other potential languages and verse forms: sometimes it's because someone wants me to write in a particular style, while other times I just want to explore the possibilities in order to see if I understand it properly (if at all). Of exceptional note to this 'other' category is the Early Modern English of the English Renaissance. I am a big fan of Sidney, Spenser, Wyatt, Surrey, and their contemporaries (well, most of them). Since I study a lot of Renaissance literature in addition to medieval, I've made various attempts to imitate the Renaissance masters.