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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... better equipage : But fince he died and Poets better proue , Theirs for their ftile ile read , his for his loue , If thou survive my well - contented day , When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover , And shalt by fortune once ...
... better success , and relent from chiding the speaker in favor of chiding Fortune . What causes the speaker , then ... better , manners , breeds , pitty , willing , eysell , bitternesse , bitter , pennance , correct , correction , pittie ...
... better is by evil still made better - for which , though no one among sonnet editors has found such a proverb , one can imagine various proverbial forms ( " Better is bettered by evil " ; " Evil makes better better , " etc. ) . The ...