shakespeare
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I find Shakespeare’s sonnets wonderful but tricky. I read them again and again, often out loud, but almost always the full meaning eludes me. Yet there is enough meaning and enough sparkling lines to enchant me William Shakespeare (1564 –1616) wrote 154 sonnets plus a few more in his plays. All sonnets have 14 lines…
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These three poems on death by three of the greatest poets in English—William Shakespeare (1564-1616), W B Yeats (1865-1939), and T S Eliot (1888-1965)—are all very familiar to me—and probably to you. If you are reading even one of them for the first time you are in for a treat. I came across the three…
A Cairn of Poems 