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  2. Sonnet 10 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 10 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet , Shakespeare uses a rather harsh tone to admonish the young man for his refusal to fall in love and have children.

  3. Death Be Not Proud - Wikipedia

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    "Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.

  4. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    In Shakespeare's early comedies, the sonnets and sonnet-making of his characters are often objects of satire. In Two Gentlemen of Verona, sonnet-writing is portrayed cynically as a seduction technique. [63] In Love's Labour's Lost, sonnets are portrayed as evidence that love can render men weak and foolish. [64]

  5. Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Prohaska provides vocals on "When Most I Wink (Sonnet 43)". "Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40)" features vocals by Wainwright and a recitation by de Vries. "Sonnet 20" is a recitation by Frally Hynes, and the following two tracks, "A Woman's Face (Sonnet 20)" and "For Shame (Sonnet 10)", feature vocals by Prohaska. [7] "Sonnet 10" is a recitation ...

  6. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    He also introduced variations in the proportions of the sonnet, from the 10 1 ⁄ 2 lines of the curtal sonnet "Pied Beauty" to the amplified 24-line caudate sonnet "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire". Though they were written in the later Victorian era, the poems remained virtually unknown until they were published in 1918.

  7. Category:Sonnets by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 154 This page was last edited on 5 August 2020, at 15:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional ...

  8. ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw Plays the ... - AOL

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    On that score, you might say that “Peter Hujar’s Day” is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day — but more than that, it consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw ...

  9. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, in which, “while declaring his love for his mistress, he mocks the Petrarchan standard vocabulary of praise”, is an example that marks English independence from the conventions of Petrarch. [9] The English sonnet sequences “exemplify the Renaissance doctrine of creative imitation as defined by Petrarch”. [10]