The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1500 Tuesday, 10 August 2004
From: Stephen C. Rose <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 9 Aug 2004 10:03:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 15.1489 Sonnet 89
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1489 Sonnet 89
>For those who insist the sonnets are not
>autobiographical, go on to the
>next posting at once and do not look back.
>
>"Probably more nonsense has been talked and
>written, more intellectual
>and emotional energy has been expended in vain,
>on the Sonnets of
>Shakespeare than on any other literary work in
>the world."
>
>W.H. Auden Introduction to the 1964 Edition
>
>Auden notwithstanding, bear with me:
Interesting and I believe apt. My personal use of the sonnet form
suggests to me that it is quite likely to evoke autobiographical
material. Auden and others notwithstanding ... Cheers, S
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