J B Leishman

Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780415352956
• ISBN-10: 0415352959
• Artikelnr.: 22306909

Autorenporträt

Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Fellow of St. John's College

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 - Poetry as Immortalisation 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 Part 2 - Devouring Time and Fading Beauty from the Greek
Anthology to Shakespeare 1. Absence of the topics carpe diem and carpe
florum 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 Youth by Ovid,
Horace and Shakespeare 5. Shakespeare and Chaucer: Tragedy and the Whole
Truth Part 3 - '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