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First published in 1961. 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 - Pindar, Horace and Ovid, with Petrarch, Tasso and Ronsart, with Shakespeare's own English predecessors and contemporaries, notably Spenser, Daniel and Drayton and with John Donne. By discussing their resemblances and differences, a not altogether orthodox picture of Shakespeare's attitude to life is presented, which suggests that he was not as phlegmatic and equable a person as critics have often supposed.

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Author:   J B Leishman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780415612241

ISBN 10:   0415612241
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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

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