| #1425738 in Books | 2016-11-29 | 2016-11-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.33 x1.04 x6.41l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| Worthy discovery|By Roman Paget|I was attracted to Elaine Scarry’s book “Naming thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” because of the editorial blurb which said: “Here, over the course of many poems, are two poets in conversation, in love, speaking and listening, writing and writing back”. This description reminded me of a book publ|||"Scarry . . . poses a surprising answer to a question that has puzzled readers of Shakespeare’s sonnets for 400 years [about] the “lovely boy" of the poems. . . .She also makes a fresh suggestion identifying the “rival poet” of Shake
A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare’s beautiful young man
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS ARE indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English. They also may be the most often argued-over sequence of love poems in any language. But what is it that continues to elude us? While it is in part the spellbinding incantations, the hide-and-seek of sound and meaning, it is also the mystery of the noble youth to whom Shak...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets | Elaine Scarry. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
