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Themes and variations in Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Title
- Themes and variations in Shakespeare's sonnets.
- Author
- Leishman, J. B. (James Blair), 1902-1963.
- Publication
- London, Hutchinson [1961]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR2848 .L4 1961 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 254 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Poetry as immoralisation from Pindar to Shakespeare: 1. Shakespeare and the roman poets -- 2. Shakespeare and Petrarch 3. Shakespeare and Tasso 4. Shakespeare and Ronsard 5. Shakespeare and his English Predecessors. II. Devouring time and fading beauty from the Greek Anthology to Shakespeare: 1. Absence of the topcs care diem and carpe florem from Shakespeare's sonnets 2. Shakespeare's sonnets on love as the defier of time 3. The Instinctiveness and unphilosophicalness of Shakespeare's 'idealism' and 'spirituality': contrast with Michelangelo and other men of Geist 4. Personifications of time, age and yough by Ovid, Horace and Shakespeare 5. Shakespeare and Chaucer: Tragedy and the whole truth. III. 'Hyperbole" and 'Religiousness" in Shakespeare's expressions of his love: 1. Shakespeare's 'un-Platonic hyperbole' 2. Excursus: sonnets written during absence 3. The Theme of 'Compensation' 4. The 'Religiousness' of Shakespeare's love. Shakespeare and Donne.
- LCCN
- 61065807
- OCLC
- ocm02153184
- 2153184
- SCSB-14693953
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library