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Some have thought these sonnets are arranged according to a definite, although shadowy, plan, while others maintain the} are quite disjointed and fragmentary; some that they are all addressed to one individual, and others that they are addressed to various persons; some that they are substantially real, and others that they are entirely fictitious. It is most singular how the mystery, which more or less shrouds Shaksperes entire history, should have intensified into a very blackness of darkness over the only work of his, which partakes of an autobiographical character. Many of the sonnets naturally form little poems or fragments; and Mr. C. Knight, in his illustrations of the sonnets in the Pictorial AS hakspere has made an arrangement according to the leading idea in the different pieces; but has, unfortunately, been misled by the supposition, that the sonnets were principafl|f fictitious, and written in imitation of the I toliafc ])oetry. Having a wish to read the poems of Shakspere oucci again not having read them since more than thirty years ago, I resolved, with regard to the reality oJ unreality of the sonnets, or as to the occasion their being written, to examine them carefully a minutely, merely as an amusement or mental exe] cis| and certainly not with the idle vanity of supposing could start fresh game on such a well-beaten field. After having read the Venus and A donis and the( Poetical Work8 of Shakspeare andS urrey, eel. 1856.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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- PublisherRecorded Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 9998849616
- ISBN 13 9789998849617
- BindingAudio Cassette
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