Sonnet 84

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 84 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 84 in the 1609 Quarto.

In Sonnet 84 is another dedicated to the Fair Youth. The speaker addresses the boy as “you”, and describes how he is “fond” of the praise he receives from admirers, but this pleasure isn’t serving him well. Other poets, also admirers of the beautiful boy, seek to cop...

Sonnet 84 Annotated

Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this rich praise, that you alone, are you,
In whose confine immured is the store
Which should example where your equal grew?
Lean penury within that pen doth dwell
That to his subject lends not some small glory;
But he that writes of you, if he can tell
That you are you, so dignifies his story.
Let him but copy what in you is writ,
Not making worse what nature made so clear,
And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,
Making his style admired every where.
You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,
Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.

Sonnet 84 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 84's ?

Sonnet 84 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 84?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 84 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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