Excerpt from A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets: Translated From the German Did not every word of this poetic emanation contain proof, to me overwhelmingly convincing, that something totally Opposite was meant; could I adopt the general and, erroneous view, or even admit that these were the effusions, of a friend or of a lover, based, as in the latter case they must have been upon carnal lust, unworthy of a man, a poet, a Shakespeare; I would not hesitate, in spite of my unbounded and reverential admiration for the Great ...
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Excerpt from A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets: Translated From the German Did not every word of this poetic emanation contain proof, to me overwhelmingly convincing, that something totally Opposite was meant; could I adopt the general and, erroneous view, or even admit that these were the effusions, of a friend or of a lover, based, as in the latter case they must have been upon carnal lust, unworthy of a man, a poet, a Shakespeare; I would not hesitate, in spite of my unbounded and reverential admiration for the Great Dramatist, to give my verdict as a man that the sonnets are, with all their beauties, inwardly unclean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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