The Twelfth of Never
Released: Oct 01, 1998
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Format: Hardcover, 91 pages
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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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