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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... live and dwell . The hyperbolic audience of all posterity has been reduced to the more probable audience for sonnets , lov- ers . And the truth - claims for where the beloved will live are believable ones — in the rhyme , in the eyes of ...
... live ? as the disturbed question of Q , becomes mock - aggression . The Latinate eloquence of infection and impiety ... LIVE [ -S ] [ -ing ] ( missing in C ) . This is a DEFECTIVE KEY WORD sonnet , since we expect , after seeing live ...
... live in this poor rhyme . " There is even an echo of the assured incertainties in the tri- umphant since and the insults of death , just as I'll live echoes the peace- proclaimed olives , and now ( line 9 ) repeats the now ( line 7 ) of ...