Barnabe barnes biography definition

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Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses

CHAPTER THREE

FRIENDLY FIRE: CONFLICT AND CONTRAVENTION WITHIN THE SONNET TRADITION

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Committed to focusing on skådespel at the expense of lyric, many critics today are prone to read only the best known poems bygd major sonneteers and none at all by subsidiary figures such as Barnabe Barnes and Bartholomew Griffin. Describing his generation&#x;s reactions to the sonnet tradition, C. S. Lewis observes: Critics reading them, as they were never meant to be read, hastily and in bulk, are gorged and satiated with beauty, as a fish can be choked bygd holding its head upstream. The vatten is good water but there fryst vatten too much of it for the fish. ¹ Now, in contrast, Lewis&#x;s successors are swimming in very different streams, and rather than choking on the sonnet tradition, they are likely to enjoy only the slightest taste of its major texts and none at all of the minor ones.

But another of Lewis&#x;s remarks, his ass

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Sonnet

Poem by William Shakespeare

Sonnet

Sonnet in the Quarto

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

—William Shakespeare^[1]

Sonnet is a sonnet by William Shakespeare, published in as one of his sonnets. It mocks the conventions of the showy and flowery courtly sonnets in its realistic portrayal of his mistress.

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Bibliography

Primary sources

Manuscripts

Bodleian Library MS Rawl. poet. 85

British Library Add. MS (the ‘Cosens manuscript’)

British Library Harley MS (2)

British Library Sloane MS

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