TY - JOUR AU - Foakes, R. A. AB - Resolution w ITCH , murmuring, fled the shades as a raven, A A piece of darkness tacked on to the fell night sky. O r sat all night as a cat, bigger than most, Surprising late travellers with her yellow eyes. They burned her, of course, after the usual torments, Civilized puritans gloating over her wisdom. She had this comfort along with the flames that unwrung her: She knew the flames and twigs, could enter their life, Crackle with their mirth as her crazy timbers dissolved. PHILI P HOBSBAUM By R. A. FOAKES {Senior Lecturer in English, University of Durham) T was to be expected that this, the quater- 1600's. They have provided a basis for assess- I centenary year of Shakespeare's birth, would ments of Shakespeare the man, who can be bring a new burst of speculation about his assembled pretty well to any critic's taste, Sonnets. They form the most personal document according to the stress he puts on this or that piece of'evidence'. The alphabet has been more he left, apart from his will, and can be shuffled about in various arrangements to provide more or less exhausted, from Hall to Hughes, in the or less TI - Much Ado About the Sonnets JO - English DO - 10.1093/english/15.86.50-b DA - 1964-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/much-ado-about-the-sonnets-fuChmocDs0 SP - 50-b EP - 52 VL - 15 IS - 86 DP - DeepDyve ER -