Hoarding the Treasure and Squandering the Truth: Giving and Possessing in Shakespeare's Sonnets to the Young Man

The speaker of the Sonnets promises his addressee immortality, an everlasting fame for his gifts of beauty and virtue, achieved via the speaker's gift for poetry and conferred through the gift of the poem he produces. Here, Scott discusses the nature of the poet-speaker's struggle to confe...

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Published in:Studies in philology 2004-07, Vol.101 (3), p.315-331
Main Author: Scott, Alison V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British literature
Friendship
Gift giving
Literary criticism
Love
Love poetry
Lyric poetry
Poetry
Poets
Renaissance period
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Sonnets
Spiritual love
Truth
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Summary:The speaker of the Sonnets promises his addressee immortality, an everlasting fame for his gifts of beauty and virtue, achieved via the speaker's gift for poetry and conferred through the gift of the poem he produces. Here, Scott discusses the nature of the poet-speaker's struggle to confer his gift upon a man of superior status, from whom he desires reciprocation and addresses the problematic notions of valuation, ownership, and obligation in the sequence, suggesting that the Sonnets contemplate impossibilities.
ISSN:0039-3738
1543-0383
1543-0383
DOI:10.1353/sip.2004.0016