The Sonnets (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michelangelo
- First Published: 1623
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Sixteenth century, Italy or Italians, Sculpting or sculptors, Sculpture
Critical Evaluation:
The fame of Michelangelo Buonarroti as a painter and a sculptor has far outdistanced his reputation as a poet. This is unfortunate, for while it is open to question whether Michelangelo could have ever developed into a poet of a stature equivalent to his stature in the plastic arts, his reputation as a poet is less than it should be. Modern critics have discovered that he is an important Renaissance Italian poet, and by many he is considered the best Italian lyric poet of the sixteenth century.
The reasons for the slow growth of Michelangelo’s...
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