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The Thirsty Arabia: Volume 5: British Renaissance… von William Percy
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.I requested this play by Percy (Shakespeare) as it's not a common play to see at theatres as to understand a little bit more about Arabian's point of view of Percy. I recommend it as it's a great play but beware it's referring to cultural and religious satire.
Dr. Anna Faktorovich’s writing is not only erudite but also beautiful and simple. Her persuasive and fascinating argument that William Percy was the main tragedian behind the “William Shakespeare pseudonym” is most convincing in her work, SONNETS. She projects more credibility than any trial lawyer.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Confusing Renaissance allegorical comedy by William Percy that did benefit from Faktorovich's "translation" (aka summary), even if that portion was very long and dry with theories that seemed far-fetched based on the evidence presented in the form of the play.
W Percy - [Sonnets to the fairest Coelia].
William Percy third son of the eighth Earl of Northumberland was born in 1575. At the age of fifteen he went to Oxford University, where he took up residence for the rest of his life. He made friends with a small group of scholar poets and his sonnet collection was his only work published in his lifetime. He had a reputation for gaiety and wit and earned his reputation as a published poet with the Coelia sonnets. In his introduction to the poems he says:
To the Reader
COurteous Reader, whereas I was fullie determined to haue concealed my Sonnets, as thinges priuie to my selfe, yet of courtesie hauing lent them to some, they were secretelie committed to the Presse, and almost finished, before it came to my knowledge. Wherefore making, as they say, Vertue of necessitie, I did deeme it most conuenient to proepose mine Epistle, onely to beseech you to account of them as toyes and amorous deuises, and ere long, I will impart vnto the world another Poeme which shall be both more fruitfull and ponderous. In the meane while I commit these as a pledge vnto your indifferent censures. London,
1594.
W. PERCY
Perhaps Percy should not have signed his name to these toys and amorous devices. There are twenty sonnets and a madrigal to Coelia very much in the accepted pattern of Elizabethan love sonnets. In Percy's case his rhyming schemes do not always work so well, but perhaps he thought he was pushing the boundaries. There is little for the modern reader to enjoy here, as his poems are exercises in style. Percy was marching on a well- trod path with these sonnets. Perhaps his best offering is sonnet XX
Receaue these writs, my sweet and deerest frend,
The liuelie patterns of my liuelesse bodie,
VVhere thou shalt find in Hebon pictures pend,
Hovv I was meeke, but thou extremelie blodie.
I'le walke forlorne along the vvillovv shades,
Alone complaining of a ruthlesse dame;
Where ere I passe, the rocks, the hilles, the glades,
In pittious yelles shall sound her cruell name.
There I will vvaile the lot which fortune sent me,
And make my mones vnto the sauage eares,
The remnant of the daies which nature lent me,
He spend them all, conceald, in ceaselesse teares.
Since vnkind fates permit me not t'ennoy her,
No more, burst eyes, I meane for to annoy her.
2 stars for this then and moving quickly onto the next collection: Fulke Greville's Caelica
… (mehr)
William Percy third son of the eighth Earl of Northumberland was born in 1575. At the age of fifteen he went to Oxford University, where he took up residence for the rest of his life. He made friends with a small group of scholar poets and his sonnet collection was his only work published in his lifetime. He had a reputation for gaiety and wit and earned his reputation as a published poet with the Coelia sonnets. In his introduction to the poems he says:
To the Reader
COurteous Reader, whereas I was fullie determined to haue concealed my Sonnets, as thinges priuie to my selfe, yet of courtesie hauing lent them to some, they were secretelie committed to the Presse, and almost finished, before it came to my knowledge. Wherefore making, as they say, Vertue of necessitie, I did deeme it most conuenient to proepose mine Epistle, onely to beseech you to account of them as toyes and amorous deuises, and ere long, I will impart vnto the world another Poeme which shall be both more fruitfull and ponderous. In the meane while I commit these as a pledge vnto your indifferent censures. London,
1594.
W. PERCY
Perhaps Percy should not have signed his name to these toys and amorous devices. There are twenty sonnets and a madrigal to Coelia very much in the accepted pattern of Elizabethan love sonnets. In Percy's case his rhyming schemes do not always work so well, but perhaps he thought he was pushing the boundaries. There is little for the modern reader to enjoy here, as his poems are exercises in style. Percy was marching on a well- trod path with these sonnets. Perhaps his best offering is sonnet XX
Receaue these writs, my sweet and deerest frend,
The liuelie patterns of my liuelesse bodie,
VVhere thou shalt find in Hebon pictures pend,
Hovv I was meeke, but thou extremelie blodie.
I'le walke forlorne along the vvillovv shades,
Alone complaining of a ruthlesse dame;
Where ere I passe, the rocks, the hilles, the glades,
In pittious yelles shall sound her cruell name.
There I will vvaile the lot which fortune sent me,
And make my mones vnto the sauage eares,
The remnant of the daies which nature lent me,
He spend them all, conceald, in ceaselesse teares.
Since vnkind fates permit me not t'ennoy her,
No more, burst eyes, I meane for to annoy her.
2 stars for this then and moving quickly onto the next collection: Fulke Greville's Caelica
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