3.3 I Read 22 Sonnets in 22 Days

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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:

  • 1From fairest creatures we desire increase

  • 3Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest

  • 18Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

  • 20A woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted

  • 22My glass shall not persuade me that I am old

  • 23As an unperfect actor on the stage

  • 27Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed

  • 29When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes

  • 30When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

  • 35No more be grieved at that which thou hast done

  • 44If the dull substance of my flesh were thought

  • 60Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore

  • 64When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defeated

  • 65Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

  • 75So are you to my thoughts as food to life

  • 80Oh, how I faint when I of you do write

  • 94That they have the pow’r to hurt, and will do none

  • 104To me, fair friend, you never can be old

  • 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time

  • 116Let me not to the marriage of true minds

  • 129Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame

  • 130My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

I compiled my list from this list here and this one here

How I wrote my own sonnet

Music from Epidemic Sound

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