Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets

achieved Aeschylus allusion Amores amours ancient love-poetry appears attempt beginning Bellay beloved called celebrated Censorinus comparable compensation Daniel Dark Lady death declares despite distinction Donne Donne's doth Drayton edition elegy Elizabethan eternal example expression eyes fame flowers Geist Greek Anthology hath heaven Herbert honour Horace Horace's hyperbole idea imitated immortality ingrateful beauty inspired Kassner kind Latin Laura lines live love's lover Mary Fitton means memorable merely metaphor Michelangelo mistress Muses never odes Othello Ovid Ovid's partly passages perhaps Petrarch Petrarch and Ronsard Petrarchan phrase Pindar Platonism poems poetic poetry poets professes Propertius Puttenham quoted recognisable regarded religious Renaissance Renaissance poets rhymes Ronsard seems sense Shakespeare Shakespeare's sonnets sonnet 74 sonnets written soul Spenser spirit stanzas style suggested sweet Tasso thee theme things thou Tibullus Time's topic tragedies transience true verse Vittoria Colonna word writing written during absence youth