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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... writer's projects invented to amuse and challenge his own capacity for inventing artworks . Formal mimeses of the mind ... write , Knowing a better spirit doth use your name , And in the praise thereof spends all his might , To make me ...
... write I ftill all one , euer the fame , And keepe inuention in a noted weed , That euery word doth almost fel my name , Shewing their birth , and where they did proceed ? O know sweet loue I alwaics write of you , And you and loue are ...
... write Now I love you best ' ? " The poem is also structured by the speaker's mock - search for an appropriate verb for “ love . ” He tries burn ( attended by Shakespeare's usual formula for am- plitude , a comparative - clearer - tacked ...