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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... lover's life . His beauty shall in these black lines be seen , And they shall live , and he in them still green . 12 ... lover's life ( 1 ) the life of my lover ( 2 ) the life of me , the lover 12 64 When I have seen by Time's fell hand ...
... lover's life . His beauty shall in these black lines be seen , And they shall live , and he in them still green . 12 ... lover's life ( 1 ) the life of my lover ( 2 ) the life of me , the lover 12 64 When I have seen by Time's fell hand ...
Page 235
... lover's music , her fingers are sweet , her playing gentle , and her touch a blessing . Scarcely a line passes without the interjection of some melting word of praise . ( In fact , the whole poem , before the couplet , is bracketed by ...
... lover's music , her fingers are sweet , her playing gentle , and her touch a blessing . Scarcely a line passes without the interjection of some melting word of praise . ( In fact , the whole poem , before the couplet , is bracketed by ...
Page 236
... lover is further reduced to nothing but a pair of lips , the lady to nothing but a set of fingers . Here , the lover also abandons the first person , and speaks of his lips in the third person , thereby affecting an impartial " outside ...
... lover is further reduced to nothing but a pair of lips , the lady to nothing but a set of fingers . Here , the lover also abandons the first person , and speaks of his lips in the third person , thereby affecting an impartial " outside ...
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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