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  2. Sonnet 73 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  3. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The spoken prologue to the play, and the prologue to Act II are both written in sonnet form, and the first meeting of the star-crossed lovers is written as a sonnet woven into the dialogue. [ 46 ] 1598 – Love's Labour's Lost is published as a quarto; the play's title page suggests it is a revision of an earlier version.

  4. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The term sonnet refers to a fixed verse poetic form, ... the character there pretends to be a novice whose text is a running commentary on the poem's ... [73] into a ...

  5. Talk:Sonnet 73 - Wikipedia

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    Can somebody please fix this article to explain the correct meaning of the ending of the sonnet, which is that in observing that people die, we recognise that we too will leave life, and it is this knowledge which leads us to love LIFE more, since we recognise that we too will soon be leaving it.

  6. Samuel Daniel - Wikipedia

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    [72] [73] The appearance of the first print edition of Daniel's epic poem has been used to establish the earliest possible date for Shakespeare's composition of Richard II as mid- to late 1595. [74] Recent analysis of an extant early manuscript of Daniel's poem, however, suggests that Shakespeare could have used such a manuscript as a source ...

  7. Ozymandias (Smith) - Wikipedia

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    Ozymandias" (/ ˌ ɒ z ɪ ˈ m æ n d i ə s / OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) [1] is the title of a sonnet published in 1818 by Horace Smith (1779–1849). Smith wrote the poem in friendly competition with his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley wrote and published "Ozymandias" in 1818.

  8. Ozymandias - Wikipedia

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    The statue fragment known as the Younger Memnon in the British Museum. Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias" in 1817, upon anticipation of the arrival in Britain of the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II acquired by Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes. [5]

  9. The New Colossus - Wikipedia

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    "The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). [2] In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.