There is a Spirit - The Nayler Sonnets

It is now more than fifty years since The Nayler Sonnets were published, and since I began writing them as a young instructor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. The first five or six were written in Hamilton, in the stress of the first few months of war in Europe in 1939 to 1941. The writing was interrupted in May of 1941 when I met my wife-to-be, Elise Biorn-Hansen, and the muse turned to celebrations of love in a quite different series of sonnets that has continued through our f...