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The Twelfth of Never

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The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, the land of the green rose, poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12thall realms of or tickets to Utopia. The combination of pleasant, even rollicking, conveyanceiambs and anapests, disguised rhymes, lilting linesand sinister endings evokes certain kinds of fairy stories, such as E. T. A. Hoffmann s.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Wake Forest University Press
Country
United States
Date
1 October 1998
Pages
91
ISBN
9780916390853

The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, the land of the green rose, poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12thall realms of or tickets to Utopia. The combination of pleasant, even rollicking, conveyanceiambs and anapests, disguised rhymes, lilting linesand sinister endings evokes certain kinds of fairy stories, such as E. T. A. Hoffmann s.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Wake Forest University Press
Country
United States
Date
1 October 1998
Pages
91
ISBN
9780916390853