The SonnetsNew American Library, 1988 - 246 pages "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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Page 91
... desire keep pace ; Therefore desire , of perfect'st love being made , Shall neigh , no dull flesh in his fiery race ; But love , for love , thus shall excuse my jade : Since from thee going he went willful slow , Towards thee I'll run ...
... desire keep pace ; Therefore desire , of perfect'st love being made , Shall neigh , no dull flesh in his fiery race ; But love , for love , thus shall excuse my jade : Since from thee going he went willful slow , Towards thee I'll run ...
Page 97
... desire ? I have no precious time at all to spend , Nor services to do till you require . Nor dare I chide the world - without - end hour Whilst I , my sovereign , watch the clock for you , Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When ...
... desire ? I have no precious time at all to spend , Nor services to do till you require . Nor dare I chide the world - without - end hour Whilst I , my sovereign , watch the clock for you , Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When ...
Page 187
... Desire is death , which physic did except . Past cure I am , now reason is past care , And frantic - mad with evermore unrest ; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are , At random from the truth vainly expressed : For I have sworn ...
... Desire is death , which physic did except . Past cure I am , now reason is past care , And frantic - mad with evermore unrest ; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are , At random from the truth vainly expressed : For I have sworn ...
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Afterword beauteous beauty's beloved Bergenfield blessèd C. S. Lewis canst cold conceit confounds couplet dear death decay dost thou doth edge of doom edition editors Elizabethan emended express fair false Falstaff fingers flower Folio Francis Meres gentle George Eliot give grace happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Henry Condell imagery jacks Jane Austen kiss leaves lily lines lips live look love's lover metaphors mind mistress Muse nature nature's niggard night person play poem poet praise prince prove quarto quatrain rhyme seems sense sestet sexual shadow Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets shame Stratford summer's synecdoche tell thine eye things thou art thou dost thought thy beauty thy love thy sweet thyself Time's true truth University Press verse virtue Vision of Eros W. H. AUDEN William Empson William Shakespeare wilt words write youth