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Sonnet 49: Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come

Sonnet 49: Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come

Update: 2023-08-27
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The soberly solemn Sonnet 49 opens an unnervingly real register that does away with hyperbolic praise, clever contrivance, or poetic acrobatics, and instead drives through a short structured sequence of dreaded but perfectly plausible scenarios towards a devastating denouement. Seldom until now and rarely hereafter do we hear Shakespeare quite so roundly, so comprehensively, and above all so authentically self-aware and self-effacing.

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Sonnet 49: Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come

Sonnet 49: Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come

Sebastian Michael