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Sonnets are poems that rhyme which consist of fourteen lines. The first eight lines are called the octet and the last six lines are called the sextet. The octec and the sexet are divided into four different lines.There are many people who wrote sonnets, one of them was William Shakespeare and another John Donne.
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Sonnets 1-17 are all, in various ways, urging the young man to have children—to reproduce. Examine the arguments Shakespeare gives. Which do you find the most convincing? Why? Choose one of the sonnets and be prepared to read it aloud and talk a bit about it in class.
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Complete audio recordings of all the 154 Sonnets by individual readers are quite scarce. Probably the best known purely audio interpretation of the complete collection is that by the legendary British actor, Sir John Gielgud (Caedmon 1963). Another memorable version is that by the English-born screen actor Ronald Colman (multi LP set, date unreported). More recent unabridged recordings have been made by the British actor Simon Callow (HighBridge Co. Oct 2005). The American film actor Stacy Keach has ... recently offered his interpretation in a 2 cd set (label unspecified). Other individual complete readings include those by Jack Edwards (Helios/Hyperion, 1988-1991), and by David Butler (In Audio 2005) and Alex Jennings (Naxos 2006).
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If you know the number of the sonnet you wish to look at, then go to any one of the three categories below, Sonnets 1-50, 51-100 or 101-154, then follow directions from there. If you do not know which sonnet it is you wish to look at, but you know a line or a phrase, then do a global search using the plain text web page listed below. Then, having identified the sonnet, return to the home page, using the Back button on your browser and navigate from there. Alternatively, if you know the first line of the sonnet, go straight to the first line index listed below. If you are in difficulty, go to the Map of the site, which should help to give you your bearings. It is worth remembering that Google (the search engine) will often point you straight to a sonnet on this web site even if you only know one line, or a part of it. The commentaries (listed on the Map page) have a first line index, or else you may go direct to the first line index from the link below.
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The 154 sonnets, of course, are first and last the Sonnets, certainly the most accomplished, extended work of personal poetry ever written. They are to be read, re-read, pondered and memorized, as much for the extraordinary music of the language as for the impassioned yet controlled expression of intimate emotional experience. In the marketplace, they reportedly are Shakespeare’s best seller.
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There are several types of sonnet groupings, including the sonnet sequence, which is a series of linked sonnets dealing with a unified subject. Examples include Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese and Lady Mary Roth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, published in 1621, the first sonnet sequence by an English woman.
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