Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's SonnetsRoutledge, 15 apr 2013 - 256 pagine First published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar, Horace and Ovid, with Petrarch, Tasso and Ronsart, with Shakespeare's own English predecessors and contemporaries, notably Spenser, Daniel and Drayton and with John Donne. By discussing their resemblances and differences, a not altogether orthodox picture of Shakespeare's attitude to life is presented, which suggests that he was not as phlegmatic and equable a person as critics have often supposed. |
Sommario
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I POETRY AS IMMORTALISATION FROM PINDAR TO SHAKESPEARE | 24 |
II DEVOURING TIME AND FADING BEAUTY FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY TO SHAKESPEARE | 92 |
III HYPERBOLE AND RELIGIOUSNESS IN SHAKESPEARES EXPRESSIONS OF HIS LOVE | 147 |
Firstline index of Sonnets quoted or mentioned | 233 |
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