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"Forty sonnets last winter," writes Louisa, "and fifty lectures at the school last summer, were too much for a man of eighty-three." He recovered sufficiently to enjoy his friends and his books and lingered six years, every want supplied by his devoted daughter. With Miss Alcott the years go on at a slower pace, the writing of books alternating with sleepless nights and attacks of vertigo.
George Meres, a contemporary and admirer of Shakspeare, in an enumeration of his works, mentions Titus Andronicus, in the year 1598. Meres was personally acquainted with the poet, and so very intimately, that the latter read over to him his sonnets before they were printed. I cannot conceive that all the critical scepticism in the world would ever be able to get over such a testimony.
As soon as Corinne was seated the Roman poets began to read the sonnets and odes which they had composed for the occasion. They all exalted her to the skies, but the praises which they lavishly bestowed upon her did not draw any characteristic features of distinction between her and other women of superior talents.
At a time when the sonnet was treated as the special vehicle for allegory, Shakespeare’s sonnets were the direct outcome of emotion of the most intimate and personal kind—a fact which at once destroys the ignorant drivel about the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, for what Bacon had was fancy, not imagination, and Fancy is the mother of Allegory, Imagination is the mother of Drama.
What if Zeal-for-Truth had never strung two rhymes together in his life? Did not his heart go for inspiration to a loftier Helicon when it whispered to itself, 'My love, my dove, my undefiled, is but one, than if he had filled pages with sonnets about Venuses and Cupids, lovesick shepherds and cruel nymphs?
Jones Very came to tea that afternoon. He was troubled at first, but we comforted him with sympathy. His conversation with George was divine, and such level rays of celestial light as beamed from his face upon George, every time he looked up at him, were lovely to behold. We told him of our enjoyment of his sonnets.
He occasionally shows the influence of Chaucer, and is said to have known Latin and French. Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of poetry, The Prophecy of St. Oran , The Heather on Fire , Songs and Sonnets , Birds of Passage , etc. She also translated Strauss's Old Faith and New, and other works, and wrote Lives of George Eliot and Madame Roland.
WAS ESSEX THEN A MARRIED MAN? If so, the Sonneteer's insistence on his marrying must be symbolical of anything else you please. We know that Bacon, at this period, "did nothing" but "ruminate" about Essex. The words are his own! . No plays, no Venus and Adonis, nothing but enthusiastic service of Essex and the Sonnets. Mr. I would not limit the potentialities of his genius.
'As the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweete, wittie soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare; witness his 'Venus and Adonis; his 'Lucrece; his sugred 'Sonnets' among his private friends.... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy amongst the Latines: so Shakspere among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.
Now, this is a picnic party, and any one who introduces elegies, epics, sonnets, 'and such, is guilty of breaking the peace at Viking and its environs. Besides, such things should always be left to the parson. He must not be outflanked, his thunder must not be stolen.
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