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Call this still-early part of his literary career “Shakespeare vs Love” as his Rape of Lucrece and Sonnets go into much more complex area of the psyche than many of his peers, then and now, dared to go. With the former, there is foundation laid for all his other Roman tragedies (including the tragi- parts of Cymbeline). Yet the Sonnets, what exactly was going on in that great mind?
— Jan 02, 2019 05:24AM
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More mysteries abound, and it’s a wonder whether Shakespeare deliberately left names out of his Sonnets and final poems just to fret critics who would easily call him “upstart crow” as poetic genius. Most of Post’s discussion steers away from the dubious attempts to figure out who these poems were about, but comes up short on their intrinsic qualities. Very Short indeed! Isn’t the phoenix an alchemical term?
— Jan 05, 2019 09:43AM
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The mystery of Shakespeare’s poems (at least compared to the relatively more familiar plays) opens up a little with Post’s own poetic take on their place in literary history. Not only does he hone in on the alchemical Sonnet 33 in his introductory chapter, but includes many modern points of view in his analysis. Venus and Adonis becomes the author’s debut as he ups the allegorical ante on the mythmaker Ovid.
— Feb 04, 2018 06:50PM
