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‘Shall I Compare Thee to the Roundness of a Cox’s Orange Pippin’ – A Treatise on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18

Let’s take it a line at a time. “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” – Shakespeare was of course famously indecisive – “To be or not to be?”, “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good:”, “Darling you’ve got to let me know, should I stay or should I go?’. This ditheryContinue reading “‘Shall I Compare Thee to the Roundness of a Cox’s Orange Pippin’ – A Treatise on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18”