My luck with Shakespeare sprang up from my contact with Professor Helen Vendler, the internationally well-known gold medal professor of lyrics and Shakespeare at Harvard University. In May of 1997, I wrote her a letter telling that I was doing John Keats for whom I knew she had written a book entitled The Odes of John Keats and demanded that I read for a Ph.D.degree in English Literature under her direction, possibly upon the obscure name of the college where I was then teaching, she plainly said of a surety that Harvard would not admit me and at the end of her reply she threw me one sentence, "Read Shakespeare and you will get everything."

Preface

William Shakespeare and His Sonnets

Annotation of Shakespeare's Sonnets

1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase")

2 ("When forty winters shall besiege thy bow")

3 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest")

12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time")

15 ("When I consider everything that grows")

18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")

19 ("Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws")

20 ("A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted")

23 ("As an unperfect actor on the stage")

29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")

30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")

33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen")

35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done")

55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments")

60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore")

62 ("Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye")

65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea")

66 (Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry)

71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead")

73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")

74 ("But be contented when that fell arrest")

76 ("Why is my verse so barren of new pride")

80 ("O how I faint when I of you do write")

85 ("My tongue-tied muse in manners holds her still")

87 ("Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing")

93 ("So shall I live, supposing thou art true")

94 ("They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none")

97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been")

98 ("From you have I been absent in the spring")

105 ("Let not my love be called idolatry")

106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time")

107 ("Not mine own fears nor the prophetic soul")

110 ("Alas 'tis true, I have gone here and there")

116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")

126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r")

127 ("In the old age black was not counted fair")

128 ("How oft, when thou my music music play'st")

129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame")

130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")

135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will")

138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth")

144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair")

146 ("Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth")

147 ("My love is as a fever, longing still")

152 ("In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn")

Additional Information

Prose Translation of the Sonnets

No Fear Shakespeare Translation of the Sonnets

CliffsNotes Analysis

Shakes?eare's Sonnets: A Modem Perspective

辜正坤译文

传汜学坐标之下的莎士比亚十四行诗研究

莎士比亚十四行诗的拓扑学认知空间

宇宙的琴弦

等效天平上的“内在语法”结构

Further Reading

Appendices

Bibliography

Index of First Lines