By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘When I do count the clock that tells the time’: so begins one of the more famous ‘Procreation Sonnets’, the suite of 17 sonnets that begin Shakespeare’s cycle of poems to the Fair Youth.
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A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 11: ‘As fast as thou shalt wane’
A reading of a Shakespeare sonnet William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 11, beginning ‘As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st’, is another ‘Procreation Sonnet’, in which the Bard urges the Fair Youth to marry and have children. Below, we sketch out a brief analysis of Sonnet 11 in terms […]
A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 10: ‘For shame deny’
A reading of a Shakespeare sonnet ‘For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any’: so begins Sonnet 10 in Shakespeare’s Sonnets. This sonnet represents a minor turning point in the sequence, since Shakespeare’s admiration of the Fair Youth and his beauty becomes personal, rather than merely being couched in […]
A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 9: ‘Is it for fear’
A critical reading of a Shakespeare sonnet We continue our exploration of William Shakespeare’s sonnets with a brief analysis of Sonnet 9, yet another ‘Procreation Sonnet’ in which the Bard endeavours to find new ways of persuading the Fair Youth to marry and have children. ‘Is it for fear to […]
A Very Short Biography of Anne Locke
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Anne Locke (c. 1530-c. 1590) is not a well-known figure in the annals of English poetry, yet she has an important and interesting – not to mention little-known – claim to literary fame, so her biography is worth dwelling on. As we discuss in […]