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Helen Vendler

The Art of The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

February 27, 2006

Shakespeaere Oxford Newsletter columnist Mark Anderson took a look at Helen Vendler’s celebrated book on the sonnets in 1998, de-constructing the artful dodges that make up any Stratfordian attempt to understand them while ignoring the author.

Shake-speare’s Sonnets – Book Reviews

February 27, 2006

Richard Whalen reviewed three recent sonnet books in the Spring 1998 Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Helen Vendler’s, Katherine Duncan-Jones’, and G.Blakemore Evans’.), and finds they have in common what we already knew: without knowing the true author, the sonnets can mean anything and nothing.

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Helen Vendler

The Art of The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Shake-speare’s Sonnets – Book Reviews

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