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  2. Sonnet 130 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the Elizabethan era. Influences originating with the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs of courtly love and in courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as Petrarch.

  3. 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]

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  5. Sonnet 133 - Wikipedia

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    Critics generally agree that Sonnet 133 addresses the complex relationship between the speaker and an unidentified woman. Josephine Roberts interprets the sonnet in that the poet expresses a "fractured sense of self" [2] as a result of his toxic relationship with the Dark Lady. Her interpretation of the relationship as "toxic" is evident in the ...

  6. Sonnet - Wikipedia

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    The term sonnet refers to a fixed verse poetic form, ... [52] and William Shakespeare was also to dismiss some of them in his Sonnet 130, ...

  7. Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life

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    [1]: 1 The "lecture" begins with "Mr. Burgess" reading Sonnet 147, in which Shakespeare describes his love for his mistress as a fever. "Mr. "Mr. Burgess" proposes that this is proof of Shakespeare contracting syphilis , and that Dark Lady's name is spelled in acrostic in the poem, the letters F T M H being a latinization of the Arabic name ...

  8. Sonnet 131 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 131 is a sonnet written by William Shakespeare and was first published in a 1609 quarto edition titled Shakespeare's sonnets. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a part of the Dark Lady sequence (consisting of sonnets 127–52), which are addressed to an unknown woman usually assumed to possess a dark complexion.

  9. Sonnet 9 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 9 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.. Because Sonnet 10 pursues and amplifies the theme of "hatred against the world" which appears rather suddenly in the final couplet of this sonnet, one may well say that Sonnet 9 and Sonnet 10 form a diptych, even though the form of linkage is ...