He called his poems psalms and sonnets, though he never consciously wrote in either form.
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But if brevity is to be deplored, what should we make of haiku, sonnets, and ink-brush calligraphy?
Yet, the author of the Sonnets at times is clearly much older and anticipating his own imminent death.
Georgian Street poetry, sonnets and rhymes almost rap-like in their word play and verbal trickery, are immensely popular too.
When run on a laptop, those ones and zeros were interpreted as the original audio clip, sonnets and other items.
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Fortunately, we do not have to rummage through countless Quatro-size pages of free verse and laboured sonnets to find this answer.
Poets have long extolled the benefits of constraint on their craft (Shakespearean sonnets pack a lot of punch with iambic pentameter).
No one before the late 18th century had ever asked them, or thought to read the plays or sonnets for biographical insights.
If Shakspere of Stratford truly was the famous author of the Sonnets, why would he think his name would be buried with his body?
In the sonnets and the plays there are frequent references to events that are paralleled in the life of Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.
's "I Have a Dream" speech, a photograph, a copy of Francis Crick and James Watson's famous "double helix" scientific paper from 1953 and Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.
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Sadly, much of this song is way beyond our typical hearing range, but with a little editing (read, slowing down) some of the squeaky-sonnets have been made audible.
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The scholarly consensus today holds that most of the Sonnets were written in the 1590s, when Shakspere of Stratford was in his late 20s to late 30s, a relatively youthful age even in Elizabethan times.
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