Benjamin McEvoy | Lecture on Shakespeare's Sonnets @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
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0:00:00 Intro to Shakespeare's sonnets
00:03:10 Reading assignment
00:04:17 The art of ellipsis
00:06:40 Fair Youth/Dark Lady sequences
00:07:30 Does Shakespeare's sexuality matter?
00:08:25 When and why did Shakespeare write the sonnets?
00:11:45 Romeo and Juliet's shared sonnet
00:12:35 Structure of Shakespeare's sonnets
00:19:10 Sonnet 29 'When, in disgrace and fortune with men's eyes'
00:25:45 Ezra Pound's theory of literature
00:30:40 W.H. Auden's 2 questions when reading poetry
00:31:45 Do the sonnets have social utility?
00:34:14 The procreation sonnets (1-17)
00:34:42 Sonnet 2 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow'
00:38:35 Sonnet 1 'From fairest creatures we desire increase'
00:41:00 Who is the speaker of the sonnets?
00:41:45 Sonnet 20 'A woman's face with nature's own hand painted'
00:46:46 Sonnet 130 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'
00:49:30 Sonnet 144 'Two loves I have of comfort and despair'
00:52:52 Sonnet 86 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse'
00:54:40 Sonnet 66 'Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry'
01:05:21 Sonnet 121 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed'
01:12:00 Recommendations for further reading

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