Worth a look, at
Lingua Franca.
Quote:
Compared with a headline, a sonnet is a piece of cake.
That’s what I said last week, pointing to the difficulty of constructing an old-fashioned newspaper headline that fits to exact measure and that, in no more space than a haiku, exactly reflects the information, emphases, and tone of the story it heads.
I took as evidence a 1950s wire-service story used as an example of headline writing by Bruce Westley of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in his 1953 classic textbook, News Editing.