Premium Content Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: His Not So Fair Lady
By Leah Acker - December 09, 2002
Many men in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries composed sequences of sonnets about women whom they loved. William Shakespeare's incomplete sonnet sequence is among the genre's most acclaimed. Most authors embellished their women's physical characteristics, but Shakespeare's 130th sonnet states that his mistress lacks most of the…
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