The Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. |
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... aesthetic investment in profusion . Its indexing function for the sequence allows it to be seen as a packed bud from which many subsequent petals will spring . It is a sonnet that best bears rereading in the context of the sequence ...
... aesthetic and moral a priori , is sublimated into the suffering necessary for sweet entertainment and mannerly ... aesthetic problem of mannerly praise . In the little lyric playlet enacted in the sonnet , the perplexed poet , dis ...
... aesthetic standards and the unsettling democratic acquisition of nature's power by each hand . There is no hope , apparently , of restoring the old sa- cred aesthetic standard ; sweet beauty has no chance of regaining her name and holy ...