Literally Literature
LITERATURE IS NOT “THE MOST AGREEABLE WAY OF IGNORING LIFE” (F. Pessoa). IT IS LIFE...LITERALLY.
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
The Hunt
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(Edmund Spenser 1552-1599) Today I would like to propose another Elizabethan poet, Edmund Spenser. The poem I have chosen is Sonnet...
Sunday, 31 March 2019
The Choice
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Digression today...but not really. Writing about Shakespeare's love sonnets and his fractious feelings, I thought of one of my own...
Thursday, 28 March 2019
WITH FALSE COMPARE
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Today I will lighten the tone by discussing Sonnet 130 in which Shakespeare mocks the Petrarchan tradition of overly sugary romanti...
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
THE DARK LADY
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Today we look at Shakespeare and his Dark Lady, the woman described in his sonnets, from 127 to 154. She was so called because she seem...
Monday, 25 March 2019
NO COMPARISON
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Today I shall briefly present perhaps the most well known sonnet written by Shakespeare to the Fair Youth, Sonnet 18. Tomorrow I shall...
Saturday, 23 March 2019
SELF SACRIFICE
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Self-sacrifice by Stanislav Bogdanov Sonnet 36 is one of my personal favourites because it portrays the power of love through self-sa...
Friday, 22 March 2019
THY SENSUAL FAULT
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I shall continue to touch on some of Shakespeare's Fair Youth sonnet sequence, with sonnet 35. Here Shakespeare is addressing his youn...
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