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Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle was first published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr (1601). The Phoenix and the Turtle (also spelled The Phœnix and the Turtle) is an allegorical poem by William Shakespeare, first published in 1601 as a supplement to a longer work, Love's Martyr, by Robert Chester.
The poem is known as Clare's "last lines" [4] and is his most famous. [5] The poem's title is used for a 2003 collection of Clare's poetry, I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by his biographer Jonathan Bate, [6] and it had previously been included in the 1992 Columbia University Press anthology, The Top 500 Poems. [7]
Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor.He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare. [5] [6] D. H. Lawrence, 1928: "When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. . . How boring, how small Shakespeare's people are! Yet the language so lovely! like the dyes from gas-tar." "When I Read Shakespeare" in The Complete Poems of D. H ...
Back then, the Bard wasn’t even considered high culture - his plays were as familiar to ordinary folks as the King James Bible. In his new book, “Shakespeare in a Divided America,” James ...
Sonnet 29 follows the same basic structure as Shakespeare's other sonnets, containing fourteen lines and written in iambic pentameter, and composed of three rhyming quatrains with a rhyming couplet at the end. It follows the traditional English rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg — though in this sonnet the b and f rhymes happen to be identical ...
John Roe's analysis in the Cambridge collection of Shakespeare's poetry, The Poems, adds a layer of mystery to the sonnet authorship when he mentions the canceled title page of Jaggard's 1612 edition, which bears Heywood's name (58). [4] The Passionate Pilgrim went through two separate printings during 1599.