Sonnets (Vol. 62) | George T. Wright (essay date 1996)
George T. Wright (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: “The Silent Speech of Shakespeare's Sonnets,” in Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996, edited by Jonathan Bate, Jill L. Levenson, and Dieter Mehl, University of Delaware Press, 1998, pp. 314-35.
[In the following essay, originally presented in 1996, Wright maintains that Shakespeare’s sonnets to the young main introduced a new mode of poetic discourse.]
Then others for the breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
—Shakespeare, Sonnet 85
O learn to read what silent love hath writ.
—Shakespeare, Sonnet 23
ABSENCE, SILENCE
O absent presence Stella is not here.
—Sidney, Astrophel and Stella
He is not here.
—Tennyson, In Memoriam
Non c'é....
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