The afterlife of Shakespeare's sonnets /
Why did no one read Sonnet 18 for over one hundred years? What traumatic memories did Sonnet 111 conjure up for Charles Dickens? Which Sonnet did Wilfred Owen find particularly offensive on the World War I battlefront? What kind of love does Sonnet 116 celebrate and why? Filling a surprising gap in...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : why Shakespeare's sonnets need an afterlife
- Loved when they alteration find, 1598-1622
- Annals of all-wasting time, 1623-1708
- One thing to my purpose nothing, 1709-1816
- As with your shadow I with these did play, 1817-1900
- A waste of shame, 1901-1997
- Conclusion : but thy eternal summer shall not fade, 1998-2018.