Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 10Gale Research Company, 1984 - 538 pages |
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Page 137
... present and future , except very in- directly , through their roles as moral exempla . The fact that most of the figures delivering such poems are ghosts not only explains but also symbolizes this powerlessness : however po- tent they ...
... present and future , except very in- directly , through their roles as moral exempla . The fact that most of the figures delivering such poems are ghosts not only explains but also symbolizes this powerlessness : however po- tent they ...
Page 233
... present , evident- ly to some more distant friend than the " lovely boy , " and 81 , which is equally out of place . When we come to the second division of the Sonnets - those which follow 126 — the traces of order are fewer and we have ...
... present , evident- ly to some more distant friend than the " lovely boy , " and 81 , which is equally out of place . When we come to the second division of the Sonnets - those which follow 126 — the traces of order are fewer and we have ...
Page 363
... present action , has great value of a kind : it reminds us of the innumerable leafy hangings , recently be- held , of which the winter has deprived us , and makes the lack of any hanging leaves at this moment not merely an observed fact ...
... present action , has great value of a kind : it reminds us of the innumerable leafy hangings , recently be- held , of which the winter has deprived us , and makes the lack of any hanging leaves at this moment not merely an observed fact ...
Contents
The Rape of Lucrece | 58 |
Sonnets | 145 |
Venus and Adonis | 405 |
Copyright | |
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