The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 10.1420 Thursday 12 August 1999.
[1] From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 11 Aug 1999 16:06:17 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 10.1414 Re: Sonnets
[2] From: John Savage <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1999 09:14:31 -0400
Subj: SHK 10.1413 Re: Sonnets
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From: W. L. Godshalk <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 11 Aug 1999 16:06:17 -0400
Subject: 10.1414 Re: Sonnets
Comment: Re: SHK 10.1414 Re: Sonnets
>Both Dante and Petrarch (to go back no further) predate
>the Platonic revival in the West. Certainly commentaries on Petrarch's
>sonnets tend to accrete Platonic interpretations, and there are aspects
>of this in Sidney, but ...
Since Neo-Platonism was alive and well in Italy during St. Augustine's
time (fourth and fifth centuries), I wonder if it ever really died, thus
needing to be revived.
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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From: John Savage <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 12 Aug 1999 09:14:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Sonnets
Comment: SHK 10.1413 Re: Sonnets
Clifford Stetner writes:
>The only real precedent I can find among sonnets are those of
>Michaelangelo which certainly
>appear to be addressed to real men.
But is there any precedent, in all of literature, for a man writing a
whole series of poems to another man encouraging him to get married and
have children?