Shakespeare's Sonnets

ISBN-13: 9780415352987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 179 str.

Kenneth Muir

Opis

Discussing Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to sonnets by Italian, French and English poets, Kenneth Muir shows how they were influenced by Shakespeare's reading of Sidney, Erasmus and Ovid and discusses their art in terms of construction, sound

Recenzje

'A fine and sensible survey of the sonnets The book serves both as a splendid introduction to the sonnets and as a corrective to some of the unsound theories and commentaries published ' - Choice

'Kenneth Muir writes with refreshing sanity - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Preliminaries; Chapter 2 The Vogue of the Sonnet; Chapter 3 Tradition and the Individual Talent; Chapter 4 Commentary; Chapter 5 Style; Chapter 6 The Truest Poetry; Chapter 7 Links With Other Works; Chapter 8 Critical History;

O autorze

Kenneth Muir