Sonnet 82

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 82 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 82 in the 1609 Quarto.

The complex sonnet deals again with the poet’s love for the Fair Youth and his attempts to describe the boy’s beauty realistically. The Bard asserts that his rivals' overblown poetry isn’t what is needed. All they need to do is allow the reality to speak for itself. Th...

Sonnet 82 Annotated

I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
And do so, love; yet when they have devised,
What strained touches rhetoric can lend,
Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathized
In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;
And their gross painting might be better used
Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

Sonnet 82 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 82's ?

Sonnet 82 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 82?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 82 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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