The Secret Architecture Of Shakespeares Sonnets Steven Monte by Steven Monte 9781474481496, 1474481493 instant download after payment.

• Discusses Shakespeare as a writer with career aspirations as a poet
• Analyses individual poems, especially anthology pieces and minor" sonnets, from new perspectives
• Explores Shakespeare’s relations with his poetic contemporaries

This book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries. The fundamental reason why his schemes have gone unnoticed is historical: within decades of his death, conventions of sonnet sequences became unfamiliar, and they have largely remained so since. Weaving together ideas of the Sonnets as a free-standing sequence and as a sonnet sequence among other poets’ complex sequences, we discover new insights into Shakespeare’s career as a poet.