What Is a Sonnet For? (Series I, Chapter 11)
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Series I, Chapter 11: What Is a Sonnet For?
What is a poem?
What is a sonnet?
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Did Shakespeare really mean it?
How long did it take him to write one?
To whom did he write them?
Was Shakespeare gay?
Notes: The Robert Frost quotation is from Newsweek, January 30, 1956, p. 56, accessed 7/5/18 at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/frost-tennis.html. The Hecht quotation is from Anthony Hecht, Introduction to G. Blakemore Evans, Ed., The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, repr. 1998), p. 15. The Dickinson quotation is from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958), L342a, quoted at https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/later_years.
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