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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... experience - complicated as it became later - out of which the sonnets to the friend spring was a mystical one . All experiences which may be called mystical have cer- tain characteristics in common . ( 1 ) The experience is " given ...
... experience - complicated as it became later - out of which the sonnets to the friend spring was a mystical one . All experiences which may be called mystical have cer- tain characteristics in common . ( 1 ) The experience is " given ...
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... experience . Though the primary experience from which they started was , I believe , the Vision of Eros , that is , of course , not all they are about . For the vision to remain undimmed , it is probably necessary that the lover have ...
... experience . Though the primary experience from which they started was , I believe , the Vision of Eros , that is , of course , not all they are about . For the vision to remain undimmed , it is probably necessary that the lover have ...
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... experience into a social cult , is based on the assumption that what is , probably , a rare experience , is one which almost everybody has or ought to have ; if they don't , then there must be something wrong with them . We know only ...
... experience into a social cult , is based on the assumption that what is , probably , a rare experience , is one which almost everybody has or ought to have ; if they don't , then there must be something wrong with them . We know only ...
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appearance argument bear beauty beauty's become believe better cold dear death desire dost doth edition effect Elizabethan example experience express eyes face fact fair false fear feeling figure fingers flower gentle give grace hand happy hast hath heart Henry hold imagery jacks keep kind kiss leaves less lines lips live look love's lover meaning metaphors mind nature never night once perhaps person play poem poet possible praise present prince prove published reason reference rich seems sense sexual Shake Shakespeare sight sonnets speak spirit stand suggest summer's sweet tell thee thine things thou art thought thyself Time's true truth turn University Press verse virtue wish worth write written youth