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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... enact that arousal and that self - loathing - just as he had found strategic ways in the first subsequence to represent and enact his speaker's abject infatuation . with a beautiful face . The ethics of lyric writing lies in the ...
... enact the speaker's plea that the young man change from hate to love , it has recourse to such matched pairs as art beloved / none lov'st , ruinate / repair , hate / love . The Quarto spelling of thyself as two words , thy and selfe ...
... enact the originally intended feminine sex in Na- ture's creation of the young man . Here , as in 126 , where they appear strik- ingly though intermittently , feminine endings enact the poet's unwilling- ness to let the young man go , a ...