English poetry is well-supplied with sonnets (and sonnet-sequences,
like Shakespeare's) on the subject of love, but marriage (Shelley's
'the longest journey') has not been so exhaustively treated by the
poets - though Meredith's Modern Love is an extended study of an
unhappy example. This collection of 144 sonnets by John Elinger is
both a sensitive account of his own (unfinished) marriage and a
reflective analysis of lifelong partnerships of the past and
present. He writes: 'Weddings are worthless: marriage is what
counts...' (2) and 'This is the one you've all been waiting for -
on sex!...' (34) and 'All marriages must end in death, divorce - or
disappointment...' (98). The poems range across a number of topics
related to marriage: parenthood, family, friendship, intimacy,
divorce and bereavement, and refer from time to time to marriages
in literature, operas, and the Old Testament. The verse is
accomplished, the analysis of marriage both instructive and
entertaining, the compassion and wisdom remarkable. This is a poet
who means what he says, and who writes frankly and honestly about a
relationship too often taken for granted or hidden by the social
convention of marital privacy.
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