Tag: Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 144: ‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair’, begins William Shakespeare in sonnet 144. Although this sonnet appears in the section of Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence that is principally concerned with the ‘Dark Lady’, sonnet 144 is noteworthy for discussing both the Fair Youth (from […]