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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... grace . The phrase skirts blasphemy , since the moral import of the immediately following ill and well immedi- ately brings religious grace into earshot ; and the fallen state of the infatu- ated speaker ( by comparison to his better ...
... grace has some hooks of its own , not only its initial consonants and vowels which remind us of the greater grief ( line 11 ) that that grace ( line 13 ) has caused , but also its possession of the same satanic hiss that exists in ...
... grace is youth and gentle sport , Both grace and faults are lou'd of more and leffe : Thou makst faults graces , that to thee refort : As on the finger of a throned Queene , The baseft lewell wil be well efteem'd : So are those errors ...