Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's SonnetsPsychology Press, 2005 - 256 páginas 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. |
Índice
Preface | 9 |
POETRY AS IMMORTALISATION FROM PINDAR | 25 |
Shakespeare and Petrarch | 44 |
Shakespeare and Tasso 53 358 | 53 |
Shakespeare and his English predecessors | 69 |
DEVOURING TIME AND FADING BEAUTY FROM | 93 |
Shakespeares sonnets on Love as the Defier of Time | 102 |
The instinctiveness and unphilosophicalness of Shakespeares | 119 |
Personifications of Time Age and Youth by Ovid Horace | 134 |
Tragedy and the Whole Truth | 142 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Referências a este livro
Mind in Character: Shakespeare's Speaker in the Sonnets David K. Weiser Visualização de excertos - 1987 |
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets Volume 24 de Critical Studies Routledge library editions Routledge library editions: Shakespeare, J. B. Leishman critical studies; in 36 volumes |
| Autor | J. B. Leishman |
| Edição | reimpressão |
| Editora | Psychology Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0415352959, 9780415352956 |
| Número de páginas | 256 páginas |
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