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sonnet's unlikely to be autobiographical

To assume that the sonnets are autobiographical is to
ignore their conventional dimensions. Tp write a sequence
of sonnets is - in Shakespeare's time - to engage in an
increadibly hackneyed form. In the 1590s, everybody who
wrote poetry dashed off a few hundred love sonnets. Part
of what Shakespeare is doing is experimenting with
convention. So a sonnet sequence is very unlikely to a
forum for any renaissance writer after 1595 to aim at any
kind of direct and authentic self-representation.

Posted by Cloten on April 10, 1997 at 16:31:21
In Reply to "Shakespeare's sexuality (2)" posted by Professor Mike on April 09, 1997 at 08:59:49

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• Everyone Wrote Hundreds of Sonnets? Prof Mike 03:06:53 4/11/97 (8)
  • okay Cloten 09:59:45 4/11/97 (7)
    • Checking Prof Mike 13:25:26 4/12/97 (1)
      • Typo Cloten 14:43:45 4/12/97 (0)
    • Sh's sonnets are different Bill Routhier 08:07:48 4/12/97 (4)
      • Impass Cloten 09:35:46 4/12/97 (3)
        • well, yes, Bill Routhier 22:18:11 4/12/97 (2)
          • Still... Cloten 09:45:49 4/13/97 (1)
            • form and expression Bill Routhier 21:13:18 4/13/97 (0)

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