WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by A. L. Rowse. 485 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. Not a single letter from Shakespeare is known to exist. Only one letter to him—a plea from a Stratford acquaintance for £30—is on ...
"The Planetary Tambourine," a collection of 99 sonnets written by Steven Nightingale, was recently designed and published by the University's Black Rock Press. The collection begins with a fitting ...
WHETHER Leigh Hunt was a man of genius, or only of surpassing talent, is a question which we willingly leave to the critics who find tweedledee different from tweedledum in kind as well as degree. We ...
South Pasadena writer and USC professor Percival Everett, far into a career as one of the most acclaimed and prolific novelists working in English, suddenly — I’m putting air quotes around that — ...
If you've encountered William Shakespeare's sonnets anytime since 1609, it's likely been in the form of the edition from that year. Four centuries and countless editions later, we still know these 154 ...
In “Naming Thy Name,” William Shakespeare’s sonnets, and those of his close friend Henry Constable, are examined by Elaine Scarry for evidence of a deep and abiding love affair. Sometimes her evidence ...
London, England (WHTM) On this day in 1609, a publisher named Thomas Thorpe went to Stationers’ Hall to register a new book. The Worshipful Company of Stationers, aka Stationers’ Company, was a ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WAUKOMIS, Okla. (KFOR) – He was born the ...