The Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect. |
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Nutzerbericht - Caomhghin - LibraryThingIt's undoubtedly a wonderful survey of the Sonnets. It is easy today to view poetry as some natural outgushing of emotion. Some verse is like this but you don't want to read that kind. Shakespeare was ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
THE ART OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
Nutzerbericht - KirkusClose readings that train a brilliant spotlight on Shakespeare's poetic performance, without however quite doing justice to the full dimensions of his achievement. A celebrated and prolific critic ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets Helen Vendler,Vendler (Helen Hennessy.) Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1997 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aesthetic alliteration amphibrachic appearance beauty beauty’s beloved beloved’s blessèd Booth canker chiasmus chiastic chiastic structure conceit contrast couplet death defective key word discourse dost doth enact eternal excuse eyes fair false faults fear give grace hate hath heart heaven invention line 14 live logical look love’s lover lyric metaphor mind missing in Q2 mistress moral Muse nature Nature’s night octave one’s phonetic phrase play poem poet’s poetic praise present proverb Quarto spelling quatrain question reader represents rhetorical rhyme rival poet rose seems sequence sestet sexual Shakespeare shame sight social sonnet 12 sonnet 20 sonnet 54 sonnet 73 sonnet 9 soul speak speaker speech-act Structure of Sonnet suggests summer’s sweet synecdoche syntactic thee thine things thou art thought Time’s tion true truth turn verb verbal verse woman young man’s youth
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets |
| Autor/in | Helen Vendler |
| Ausgabe | illustriert, Neuauflage, überarbeitet |
| Verlag | Harvard University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0674637127, 9780674637122 |
| Länge | 672 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |