Sonnet 59

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 59 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 59 in the 1609 Quarto.

Sonnet 59 is part of the sequence dedicated to the Fair Youth. Yet this much admired sonnet is a departure, no longer focusing on the beautiful young man and the love, yearning, envy, insecurity he stirs in the poet. It is closer to being a love poem about poetry.

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Sonnet 59 Annotated

If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child.
Oh that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done,
That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Whether we are mended, or where better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
Oh sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given admiring praise.

Sonnet 59 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 59's ?

Sonnet 59 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 59?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 59 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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