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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... writes in Sonnet 119 : O , benefit of ill : now I find true That better is by evil still made better ; And ruined love ... write either Sonnet 53 , or 105 , In all external grace , you have some part , But you like none , none you , for ...
... writes in Sonnet 119 : O , benefit of ill : now I find true That better is by evil still made better ; And ruined love ... write either Sonnet 53 , or 105 , In all external grace , you have some part , But you like none , none you , for ...
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... write on the subject have felt it too prosaic to hold that Mr. W. H. was simply a person who brought the poems into the publisher's hands ; rather , they have sought to identify him with the friend to whom many of the poems are ...
... write on the subject have felt it too prosaic to hold that Mr. W. H. was simply a person who brought the poems into the publisher's hands ; rather , they have sought to identify him with the friend to whom many of the poems are ...
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... writing " and " traits , " " features " ) 4 filed polished 5 other others 6 still always 7 able spirit affords i.e. , competent poets write 10 most utmost 13-14 Then others ... effect i.e. , then take notice of other poets for their ...
... writing " and " traits , " " features " ) 4 filed polished 5 other others 6 still always 7 able spirit affords i.e. , competent poets write 10 most utmost 13-14 Then others ... effect i.e. , then take notice of other poets for their ...
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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