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📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature/about ———————————— 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA24... (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 🏫 https://hardcore-university.teachable... (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses) ✍🏼 https://benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website ———————————— Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b ☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD ⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3 🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 ❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA 🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3 🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c ———————————— Happy reading! 0:00:00 Intro to Shakespeare's sonnets 00:03:10 Reading assignment 00:04:17 The art of ellipsis 00:06:40 Fair Youth/Dark Lady sequences 00:07:30 Does Shakespeare's sexuality matter? 00:08:25 When and why did Shakespeare write the sonnets? 00:11:45 Romeo and Juliet's shared sonnet 00:12:35 Structure of Shakespeare's sonnets 00:19:10 Sonnet 29 'When, in disgrace and fortune with men's eyes' 00:25:45 Ezra Pound's theory of literature 00:30:40 W.H. Auden's 2 questions when reading poetry 00:31:45 Do the sonnets have social utility? 00:34:14 The procreation sonnets (1-17) 00:34:42 Sonnet 2 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow' 00:38:35 Sonnet 1 'From fairest creatures we desire increase' 00:41:00 Who is the speaker of the sonnets? 00:41:45 Sonnet 20 'A woman's face with nature's own hand painted' 00:46:46 Sonnet 130 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' 00:49:30 Sonnet 144 'Two loves I have of comfort and despair' 00:52:52 Sonnet 86 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse' 00:54:40 Sonnet 66 'Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry' 01:05:21 Sonnet 121 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed' 01:12:00 Recommendations for further reading Join the 'How to Read Great Poetry' Lecture Series Early Enrolment waiting list: https://hardcore-university.teachable.com/p/how-to-read-great-poetry Podcast on Shakespeare's Sonnets: https://benjaminmcevoy.com/shakespeares-sonnets-podcast/