3.3 I Read 22 Sonnets in 22 Days
Welcome back to The Community Library! Since Melbourne is still in lockdown, and I have nothing better to do, I decided to read one Shakespearean sonnet every day for twenty-two days. And then … I wrote my own. Want to find out how it went? Listen now! Hope you enjoy x
The book club pick for this month is Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, and we will be discussing this on the podcast on the 26th of July – exactly one week from today!
Listen to the episode here
Download full transcription of the episode here
Another episode on Shakespeare: “He’s Not Bad At Writing”: Thoughts on Shakespeare with Laurence
Sonnets I read:
1 – From fairest creatures we desire increase
3 – Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
18 – Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
20 – A woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted
22 – My glass shall not persuade me that I am old
23 – As an unperfect actor on the stage
27 – Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
29 – When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
30 – When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
35 – No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
44 – If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
60 – Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
64 – When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defeated
65 – Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
75 – So are you to my thoughts as food to life
80 – Oh, how I faint when I of you do write
94 – That they have the pow’r to hurt, and will do none
104 – To me, fair friend, you never can be old
106 – When in the chronicle of wasted time
116 – Let me not to the marriage of true minds
129 – Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame
130 – My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
I compiled my list from this list here and this one here
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Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning
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