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First published in 1961.
This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar, Horace and Ovid, with Petrarch, Tasso and Ronsart, with Shakespeare's own English predecessors and contemporaries, notably Spenser, Daniel and Drayton and with John Donne.
By discussing their resemblances and differences, a not altogether orthodox picture of Shakespeare's attitude to life is presented, which suggests that he was not as phlegmatic and equable a person as critics have often supposed.
Contents
Part 1 - Poetry as Immortalisation from Pindar to Shakespeare 1. Shakespeare and the Roman poets 2. Shakespeare and Petrarch 3. Shakespeare and Tasso 4. Shakespeare and Ronsard 5. Shakespeare and his English predecessors Part 2 - Devouring Time and Fading Beauty from the Greek Anthology to Shakespeare 1. Absence of the topics carpe diem and carpe florum from Shakespeare's sonnets 2. Shakespeare's sonnets on Love as the Defier of Time 3. The instinctiveness and unphilosophicalness of Shakespeare's 'idealism' and 'spirituality': contrast with Michelangelo and other men of Geist 4. Personifications of Time, Age and Youth by Ovid, Horace and Shakespeare 5. Shakespeare and Chaucer: Tragedy and the Whole Truth Part 3 - 'Hyperbole' and 'Religiousness' in Shakespeare's Expressions of his Love 1. Shakespeare's 'un-Platonic hyperbole' 2. Excursus: sonnets written during absence 3. The theme of 'compensation' 4. The 'religiousness' of Shakespeare's Love. Shakespeare and Donne
