This was perfect for me today in a unique way, because it's my 40th birthday 😂
My brow being thus beseiged, I'm so grateful for my three "fair children" who certainly sum my count and make my old excuse. Loved the discussion on the Wheat & Tares parable connected to the sonnet too!
Brian Vickers makes an excellent case that the Procreation sonnets explore the ideas of Erasmus’ Praise of Marriage translated in Thomas Wilson’s English Rhetoric (1560). See Vicker’s Introduction to English Renaissance Literary Criticism. The insights gleaned from Erasmus’ take on rhetorical strategy and gender roles also inform Venus and Adonis.
Do you suppose there are any strong connections between this sonnet's "proud livery" turned to a "tattered weed" and the "tattered loving" in sonnet 26? I feel like the latter emphasizes the re-productive nature of art, almost as if the sonnet speaks of its own dependence on a willing reader in order to "reproduce" itself, without which it is just a text(ile) as tattered as worn clothes.
Absolutely. I haven’t gotten there in my own slow read yet, but I will be addressing the movement from superficial and material continuity to the permanence of the written word. Good connection.
How interesting for me, with my only modern and self-educated English to understand deeper and clear Shakespeare. Thank you.
I am always honored when you read my essays, Ms. Rimerman. Thank you.
Thank you - K. S. Bernstein and Pastor Wesley for liking my comment.
I think Shakespeare would totally love that pun.
This was perfect for me today in a unique way, because it's my 40th birthday 😂
My brow being thus beseiged, I'm so grateful for my three "fair children" who certainly sum my count and make my old excuse. Loved the discussion on the Wheat & Tares parable connected to the sonnet too!
I’m glad to hear that. Happy birthday!
Brian Vickers makes an excellent case that the Procreation sonnets explore the ideas of Erasmus’ Praise of Marriage translated in Thomas Wilson’s English Rhetoric (1560). See Vicker’s Introduction to English Renaissance Literary Criticism. The insights gleaned from Erasmus’ take on rhetorical strategy and gender roles also inform Venus and Adonis.
Do you suppose there are any strong connections between this sonnet's "proud livery" turned to a "tattered weed" and the "tattered loving" in sonnet 26? I feel like the latter emphasizes the re-productive nature of art, almost as if the sonnet speaks of its own dependence on a willing reader in order to "reproduce" itself, without which it is just a text(ile) as tattered as worn clothes.
Absolutely. I haven’t gotten there in my own slow read yet, but I will be addressing the movement from superficial and material continuity to the permanence of the written word. Good connection.