The Reader and Shakespeare's Young Man Sonnets

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Macmillan, 1981 - Literary Criticism - 247 pages

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Contents

The Obtrusive
30
The Sardonic Tone
48
Promises
61
Copyright

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appear argument beauty beauty's beginning breath canker chapter conceit contrast conventional couplet of Sonnet dead death decay describe dost doth effect emphasise eternal excuses eyes fair faults flower give grace hath idea imagery immortalising immortality implications infidelity Ingram and Redpath innuendo irony kind limbecks line 12 line 9 literally live look love you best love's lover Martin Seymour-Smith meaning metaphor muse nature octave opening line opening quatrain paradox phrase poem poet's poetic poetry possible praise present procreation sonnets promise Quarto Reader and Shakespeare's rest rhetoric rhyme rival poet rose second quatrain seems sense sequence sestet Seymour-Smith Shakespeare's Sonnets Shakespeare's Young simile Sonnet 15 Sonnet 73 Sonnet 94 Sonnets 67 Stephen Booth summer sweet syntactic syntax takes thee thine things third quatrain three quatrains time's tone vague verb verse vile vision whole sonnet words writing Young Man Sonnets young man's

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About the author (1981)

Gerald Hammond was born in 1926. He was an architect for thirty years before retiring in 1982. He has written over thirty mystery novels and is the creator of John Cunningham, dog breeder in Scotland, and Keith Calder, gunsmith. He also writes under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Reader and Shakespeare's Young Man Sonnets
AuthorGerald Hammond
PublisherMacmillan, 1981
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized13 Oct 2006
ISBN0333288513, 9780333288511
Length247 pages
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Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
  
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