Shakespeare's Sonnet #1: A Close Reading

#literature #booktok #history #shakespeare Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa A close reading of Sonnet #1 exploring the nuances of the "Procreation" theme as presented in the Sonnet. Powerpoint slides for this lecture: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dFRF... My Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/unterge... 0:00 - Introduction 0:16 - Context 1:49 - Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) 4:23 - Sonnet #1 reading 5:35 - General Sense of the Poem 7:27 - Rhyming and Structure 9:30 - Diction, Imagery and Themes 16:45 - The Procreation Theme: Genesis, Plato's Symposium and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Related videos:    • Renaissance Literature: An Introduction      • Machiavelli and the First Wave of Modernity      • Shakespeare: An Introduction      • Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney's Astrophil an...      • Shakespeare's Sonnets