Beste Sonnets podcasts (2024)

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Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph to Make 29:28

2d ago29:28

29:28

Sonnet 81, although it appears right in the middle of the Rival Poet group of sonnets, does not concern itself with any poet other than Shakespeare at all, and so it either marks a detour deliberately taken by Shakespeare from his preoccupation with his rival, or it presents an instance in which a sonnet has in fact slipped from its position and be…

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Sonnet 80: O How I Faint When I of You Do Write 28:30

9d ago28:30

28:30

With his amazingly brazen Sonnet 80, William Shakespeare metaphorically pushes the boat out in more sense than one and comes close to mocking not only his rival, but also – albeit gently – his young lover whom he insinuates being drawn to this other writer not only by his compelling poetry but by a prowess of an altogether more physical nature too.…

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Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid 29:52

16d ago29:52

29:52

With Sonnet 79, William Shakespeare continues his lament, begun with Sonnet 78, that he no longer enjoys the exclusive privilege of writing poetry to and for his young lover, constructing an – objectively speaking fairly tenuous – argument why the young man should not be overly grateful to this Rival Poet for his efforts. With a transactional tone …

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Sonnet 78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee for My Muse 28:37

23d ago28:37

28:37

Sonnet 78 is the first in a group of nine sonnets that concern themselves almost entirely with the apparent arrival on the scene of someone else who is now writing poetry for Shakespeare's young lover, vying for his attention and possibly obtaining his patronage, which is why these poems are collectively known as the Rival Poet Sonnets. Strictly sp…

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The Halfway Point Summary 45:11

1M ago45:11

45:11

This special episode summarises what we have learnt so far from the first 77 sonnets by William Shakespeare. It recaps the principal pointers that allow us to put together a profile of the young man they were written for or about and outlines the phases of his relationship with our poet, and it also dismantles some of the misconceptions that are so…

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Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear 26:13

1M ago26:13

26:13

The curiously didactic Sonnet 77 marks the halfway point of the collection of 154 sonnets contained in the 1609 Quarto Edition and it stands out for several reasons. What most immediately catches the eye is that it seems to be written into or so as to accompany a book of empty pages for its recipient to collect their thoughts and notes in a book of…

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Sonnet 76: Why Is My Verse so Barren of New Pride 23:07

1M ago23:07

23:07

The deceptively unsensational Sonnet 76 asks a simple question and provides to this a straightforward enough answer that will hardly come as a surprise: how is it that I write one sonnet after another and they all sound the same? Because "I always write of you." With this one declaration it settles a debate that – in view of its very existence baff…

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Sonnet 75: So Are You to My Thoughts as Food to Life 20:31

2M ago20:31

20:31

Sonnet 75 marks a moment of comparative calm in the turbulent relationship between William Shakespeare and his young lover. With its sober assessment of a continuously conflicted world of emotions that oscillate between abundant joy at being allowed to bask in the presence of the young man and utter dejection at missing him when he is absent, the s…

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Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest 27:17

2M ago27:17

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Sonnet 74 continues the argument from Sonnet 73, and now reflects on what will happen when I, the poet, William Shakespeare, am dead. My body will be buried and return to earth, but my spirit will live on in this poetry that I write for you, the young man, which is why the loss you experience at my death will be insignificant: it only entails my pa…

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Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold 23:33

2M ago23:33

23:33

Sonnet 73 is the first in a second pair of poems to meditate on the poet's age and mortality and to reflect on the point of his very existence. But while Sonnets 71 & 72 focus on Shakespeare's reputation, which he perceives as poor and which he fears might also tarnish the young man were he to show his love and mourning for Shakespeare after his de…

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Sonnet 72: O Lest the World Should Task You to Recite 25:50

2M ago25:50

25:50

Sonnet 72 picks up on Sonnet 71 and explains why the supposedly 'wise' world would look down on the young man for having loved or for still loving Shakespeare after his death and why he should therefore forget him and allow the poet's name to pass into oblivion, along with his decomposing body in the grave. The sonnet reinforces and intensifies the…

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Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead 21:55

3M ago21:55

21:55

Sonnet 71 is the first in a pair of poems which purport to urge the young man to forget the author after his death so as to spare him – the young man – any embarrassment or indeed mockery that having loved or still caring for the then deceased poet might cause him. Both sonnets, but Sonnet 71 in particular, strike an ironic tone, which nevertheless…

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Sonnet 70: That Thou Are Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect 28:35

3M ago28:35

28:35

With Sonnet 70, William Shakespeare once more performs the poetic equivalent of a handbrake turn and swivels what we thought we could understand from Sonnet 69 around 180 degrees to race headlong in the opposite direction. The charge levied against his young lover – that with his conduct he has been allowing himself to become 'common' and thus acqu…

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Sonnet 69: Those Parts of Thee That the World's Eye Doth View 24:41

3M ago24:41

24:41

Taken on its own, Sonnet 69 presents a devastating indictment of William Shakespeare's young lover. Its uncompromising juxtaposition of the young man's universally acknowledged beauty against his reputedly flawed character would be enough to put into question whether Shakespeare can still feel at all devoted to him: by itself, the poem is nothing s…

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Sonnet 68: Thus Is His Cheek the Map of Days Outworn 26:20

3M ago26:20

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Sonnet 68 continues the argument from Sonnet 67 and shifts the focus of Shakespeare's opprobrium from the fashion for heavy make-up to that for wearing wigs, a practice by him equally abhorred. Unlike Sonnet 67, Sonnet 68 seems to be virtually devoid of any puns or double meanings that would resonate with us, and so although these two sonnets come …

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Sonnet 67: Ah, Wherefore With Infection Should He Live 31:28

4M ago31:28

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Sonnet 67 picks up on the deeply dissatisfied mood of Sonnet 66 and develops the theme of a world that has lost its way right through Sonnet 68. On the surface, Sonnets 67 & 68 concern themselves entirely with the then new fashion – much scorned by Shakespeare – for heavy make-up and big wigs and their wearers' futile endeavours to endow themselves…

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01 – Chapters 001-025 21:45

4M ago21:45

21:45

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor William Shakespeare

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01 – January 1:20

4M ago1:20

1:20

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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02 – Chapters 026-050 22:15

4M ago22:15

22:15

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor William Shakespeare

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02 – February 1:14

4M ago1:14

1:14

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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Sonnet 66: Tired With All These, for Restful Death I Cry 26:13

4M ago26:13

26:13

Sonnet 66 to all intents and purposes is a rant. In it, William Shakespeare uses his opening line to tell us that he is about to name just some of the things that make him want to throw in the towel and die. He then lists eleven of these ills in the world and reserves the closing couplet to reiterate that he's really over it and would gladly turn h…

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03 – Chapters 051-075 22:19

4M ago22:19

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More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor William Shakespeare

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03 – March 1:18

4M ago1:18

1:18

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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04 – Chapters 076-100 21:42

4M ago21:42

21:42

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor William Shakespeare

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04 – April 1:14

4M ago1:14

1:14

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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05 – Chapters 101-125 23:08

4M ago23:08

23:08

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor William Shakespeare

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05 – May 1:14

4M ago1:14

1:14

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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06 – Chapters 126-154 28:13

4M ago28:13

28:13

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor William Shakespeare

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06 – June 1:16

4M ago1:16

1:16

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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07 – July 1:18

4M ago1:18

1:18

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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08 – August 1:14

4M ago1:14

1:14

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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09 – September 1:17

4M ago1:17

1:17

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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Sonnet 65: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea 25:41

4M ago25:41

25:41

Sonnet 65 brings to a close – at least for the moment – this reflection on the passing of time that started with Sonnet 60 and focused quite heavily – certainly in parts – on William Shakespeare's preoccupation with his own age and mortality. The sonnet effectively provides a summing up of the arguments laid out over the previous four or five poems…

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10 – October 1:16

4M ago1:16

1:16

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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11 – November 1:22

4M ago1:22

1:22

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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12 – December 1:14

4M ago1:14

1:14

More great books at LoyalBooks.comDoor Helen Hunt Jackson

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Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced 20:19

4M ago20:19

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With his moving, melancholy Sonnet 64, William Shakespeare continues an ongoing meditation on time, but unlike other sonnets that have gone before or that are soon to come, he here finds no redemption in his own writing or hope in the prospect of being able to lend his lover longevity beyond his presence on the planet through poetry. The sonnet th…

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Sonnet 63: Against My Love Shall Be as I Am Now 21:10

4M ago21:10

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In Sonnet 63, William Shakespeare continues his reflection on his own age and now projects this as a dreaded and near-inescapable reality that will one day be visited upon his young lover; but like several sonnets that have come in the collection before, Sonnet 63 both endeavours and promises to render the young lover immune to death, age, and deca…

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Sonnet 62: Sin of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye 25:43

5M ago25:43

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With his most unsparing sonnet so far, Sonnet 62, William Shakespeare finds yet another register and a new level of depth to both his insight into self and the honesty with which he is prepared to sonneteer his young lover. That his lover is young and he by his own perception and standards old could scarcely be more drastically emphasised than in t…

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Sonnet 61: Is it Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open 25:25

5M ago25:25

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With Sonnet 61, William Shakespeare returns to the theme treated in Sonnets 27 & 28 of an enforced separation from his lover that robs him of his sleep, but here brings into the equation the young man's hoped for but absent jealousy, to end on a sense that in fact betrays Shakespeare's own jealousy of the company the young man is keeping while away…

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Special Guests: Sir Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson – The Order of the Sonnets 50:45

5M ago50:45

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In this special episode, Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson who severally and jointly have written and edited many books on Shakespeare, talk to Sebastian Michael about their edition All the Sonnets of Shakespeare and how the order of composition differs from the order in which they were first published in 1609, and also about where …

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Sonnet 60: Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore 26:44

5M ago26:44

26:44

For his quiet mediation on time in Sonnet 60, William Shakespeare once more borrows more or less directly from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a text we know he knew well and that influenced him greatly in the translation of his contemporary Arthur Golding. Its calm philosophical acceptance of mortality notwithstanding, it nevertheless infuses its reflective…

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Sonnet 59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is 23:05

6M ago23:05

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Sonnet 59 takes us back into the realm of the proverb and the poetic commonplace and wonders how – if the old saying holds true that there is nothing new under the sun, but everything recurs in never ending cycles – a previous generation would have viewed and in poetry depicted the young man. Similar to Sonnet 53, it for the most part appears to pr…

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Sonnet 58: That God Forbid That Made Me First Your Slave 26:26

6M ago26:26

26:26

Sonnet 58 continues from Sonnet 57 and elaborates on Shakespeare's startling sense of subservience to the young man. It simply picks up from the sentiment that "being your slave" I have to wait on and for you and affirms that in this lowly position I cannot presume to have any powers over your conduct or your whereabouts, and in fact I must not eve…

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Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend 22:46

6M ago22:46

22:46

Sonnets 57 & 58 once again come as a strongly linked pair, and with these sonnets , William Shakespeare positions himself at such a pointedly subservient angle to his lover that we may be forgiven for detecting in them a really rather rare and therefore all the more startling note of sarcasm. The argument that is being pursued is simple enough: I a…

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Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be it Not Said 19:18

6M ago19:18

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Sonnet 56 is the second sonnet in the series so far in which William Shakespeare addresses not the young man, nor us as the general reader or listener about the young man, but an abstract concept, in this case love. The first instance when Shakespeare did something similar was Sonnet 19, which addressed itself to time. Here as then, this changes ou…

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Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments 24:57

7M ago24:57

24:57

With the supremely confident Sonnet 55, William Shakespeare returns to a theme he has handled similarly deftly before: the power of poetry itself to make the young man live forever. In a departure from previous instances, he here appears to borrow directly from Horace and Ovid, who are both Roman poets of the turn into the first millennium of the C…

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Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem 18:48

7M ago18:48

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After the turmoil of Sonnets 33 to 42 and the prolonged period of separation signalled by Sonnets 43 to 51, which in turn was followed by a joyous, sensual and tender reunion with Sonnets 52 and 53, Sonnet 54 assumes a more aloof, marginally moralistic tone which nevertheless manages to connect with, and in fact reference, sonnets that appeared muc…

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Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made 28:07

7M ago28:07

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The tender and complex Sonnet 53 – just over a third into the series – finds yet another entirely new register and conjures up not only an image of a beautiful person being admired but also a sense of great intimacy that comes delicately paired with that feeling of wonder at something almost alien that may just be too good to be true.…

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Sonnet 52: So Am I as the Rich, Whose Blessed Key 25:38

7M ago25:38

25:38

The astonishingly suggestive Sonnet 52 is the closest William Shakespeare has come so far to answering in his own words the question that has agitated readers of these sonnets for centuries: is this a physical, even sexual, relationship he is having with the young man, or could it not simply be one that is very close, maybe romantic, but neverthele…

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