Here at LitCharts we've "translated" all of Shakespeare's sonnets into modern English to help you understand them.ĬrashCourse: Introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets It also includes a number of images relating to sonnet history.
This higher-level introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets explores the poems' importance to British literary history and their continued relevance today. In this YouTube video by Socratica, hear Jamie Muffett read Sonnet 73 aloud.īritish Library: Introduction to the Sonnets More “Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold” Resources.
Suggestions flying around for what should come next include William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and Dante's Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost, all of which would be brilliant. As for the much-trumpeted celebrity performances, my first thought was "yuck", but it's tastefully done and you don't have to watch Stephen Fry and Kim Cattrall if you don't want to.įaber's app commissioner now wields as much power as the person who decides where to open a new Waitrose. And it's lovely to look at the facsimile of the 1609 quarto while listening to the sonnets.
I appreciated the integration of the Arden notes, so you can click on a line and find out what it means. Most fascinating is his emphasis on the weirdness and borderline misogyny of the sonnets, a view echoed by the other academics interviewed for the app. It's like sitting in the pub with a witty, more literary friend, who uses language such as "mind bouillabaisse" and "post-coital freak-out". Paterson's commentary is the best thing about this app. Reading outside and trying vainly to shield my iPad from the glare, I prayed the sun would go in so I could see what Don Paterson had to say about Sonnet 129. The Sonnets app, like its older sister The Waste Land, has the power to awaken passions (in my case, Shakespeare and poetry) you never knew you had. Imagine an interactive version of Radio 4's In Our Time where you, not Melvyn, are in charge, and instead of having to hurry the dons so as not to eat into Book of the Week, you have endless time to explore the intricacies of the subject.
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