Sidney Lee: Sonnet

Sidney Lee was English biographer and critic. Explore interesting quotes on sonnet.

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“Shakespeare's relations with men and women of the court involved him at the outset in emotional conflicts, which form the subject-matter of his 'Sonnets”

Dictionary of National Biography, art. "William Shakespeare"

“a purely literal interpretation of the impassioned protestations of affection for a "lovely boy", which course through the sonnets, casts a slur on the dignity of the poet's name which scarcely bears discussion”

Shakespeare's Sonnets, Facsimile of the First Edition 1609, ed. S. Lee, 1905

“I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody which gives the Sonnets their life.”

"The Impersonal Aspect of Shakespeare's Art" (English Association Leaflet, 13, July 1909)