Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
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Poet William Shakespeare 1564–1616
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Renaissance
Subjects Marriage & Companionship, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Living, Love, Romantic Love, Classic Love, Realistic & Complicated
Occasions Weddings
Poetic Terms Sonnet
Biography
While William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditionally been pushed to the margins of the Shakespeare industry. Yet the study of his nondramatic poetry can illuminate Shakespeare's . . .
Poems by William Shakespeare
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SUBJECT Marriage & Companionship, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Living, Love, Romantic Love, Classic Love, Realistic & Complicated
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Renaissance
Poetic Terms Sonnet
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