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—William Shakespeare [1] Sonnet 38 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare . It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the lyric subject expresses its love towards a young man.
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Chandos portrait, commonly assumed to depict William Shakespeare but authenticity unknown, "the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had ...
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 ...
The New York School was an informal group of poets active in 1950s New York City whose work was said to be a reaction to the Confessionalists. Some major figures include John Ashbery , Frank O'Hara , James Schuyler , Kenneth Koch , Barbara Guest , Joe Brainard , Ron Padgett , Ted Berrigan and Bill Berkson .
The Poetry Society of New York is an American nonprofit organized in the state of New York in 2015. [1] Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski are founding partners. Its mission is finding new and innovative ways to bring together the poetry community with the general public through a series of events and projects. [2]
In August 1819 an anonymous writer for The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal suggested that 'Christopher Marlowe' might be a pseudonym assumed for a time by Shakespeare, [12] and this idea was developed further in the same journal in September 1820, [13] noting how Shakespeare "disappears from all biographical research just at the moment when Marlowe first comes on the stage; and who re ...
The first known illustration to "A Lover's Complaint", from John Bell's 1774 edition of Shakespeare's works. Few have questioned the authorship of the poem. Shakespeare's authorship was not questioned until the early 19th century, when Hazlitt expressed doubts. In 1917 Robertson suggested that the poem, and several plays, were written by Chapman.
H. L. Mencken wrote a withering review of the work, concluding that it makes sorry reading for those who revered Twain. [68] In 1918, Professor Abel Lefranc, a renowned authority on François Rabelais, published the first volume of Sous le masque de "William Shakespeare" in which he provided detailed arguments for the claims of the Earl of ...