Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle What are the most beautiful poems in English verse? There are many mellifluous, melodic, and pleasingly arranged poems in English literature, so picking ten was always going to be a tough call.
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A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 33: ‘Full many a glorious morning have I seen’
A reading of a classic Shakespeare sonnet ‘Full many a glorious morning have I seen’: Sonnet 33 is, without doubt, one of the more famous of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. It also introduces the first real note of heartbreak into the sequence: Shakespeare, it would appear, has been dumped by the Fair […]
A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 34: ‘Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day’
A reading of a Shakespeare sonnet Shakespeare’s Sonnet 34 continues the marvellous heights of Sonnet 33, and is similarly worthy of close analysis and discussion, not least because this sonnet, beginning ‘Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day…?’, continues the sun/cloud imagery introduced in the previous sonnet. Why didst […]
