Sonnet 138 is one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's sonnets. Making use of frequent puns ("lie" and "lie" being the most obvious), it shows...
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wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were...
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Sonnet 144 (along with Sonnet 138) was published in the Passionate Pilgrim (1599). Shortly before this, Francis Meres referred to Shakespeare's Sonnets...
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The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical...
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William Shakespeare (category Sonneteers)
sonnets 138 and 144 appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim, published under Shakespeare's name but without his permission. Published in 1609, the Sonnets...
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with "the opening strains of 'Sonnet 138' sound like nothing as much as a Paul Kelly song, lyrics and all. Later, 'Sonnet 18' repeats the trick, marrying...
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Sonnet 23 is one of a sequence of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence...
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authentically Shakespearean. These are two sonnets, later to be published in the 1609 collection of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and three poems extracted from the...
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whispered, repeated, echoed. Extracts from three of Shakespeare's sonnets, numbers 47, 138 and 60 are heard during the film. There is also a single line from...
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made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies" Shakespeare's Sonnet 138. C. S. Lewis in his wartime novel That Hideous Strength had the following...
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