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"The English Terence"--oh, & also "The Swan of Avon" |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
DJ |
OLD POETS' NICKNAMES |
2017-10-26 |
#7619 |
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His sonnet No. 19 begins, "Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws" |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
DJ |
POETRY TIME |
2009-10-20 |
#5772 |
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One of his sonnets begins,"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments" |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
DJ |
WAXING POETIC |
2008-12-22 |
#5591 |
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"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" |
Shakespeare
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$1,600 |
DJ |
NAME THE POET |
2007-02-19 |
#5171 |
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
J |
NAME THAT POET |
2007-02-12 |
#5166 |
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A rural legend says he wrote a nasty ballad about Sir Thomas Lucy after being caught poaching on Lucy's land |
William Shakespeare
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$1,200 |
DJ |
POETIC LICENSE |
2002-05-06 |
#4081 |
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In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer |
William Shakespeare
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$200 |
J |
POETS & POETRY |
1999-06-11 |
#3415 |
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One reason he is not buried in Westminster Abbey is his epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones" |
William Shakespeare (he's buried at Stratford)
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FJ |
POETS' CORNER |
1999-01-28 |
#3319 |
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His first of 154 sonnets begins "From fairest creatures we desire increase" |
Shakespeare
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$200 |
DJ |
POETRY |
1995-09-29 |
#2545 |
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The Bard who asked, "Who is Silvia? What is she, that all our swains commend her?" |
Shakespeare
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$200 |
DJ |
POETRY |
1993-10-21 |
#2099 |
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This playwright's 1593 poem "Venus and Adonis" is called "Ovidian" because it was inspired by Ovid |
Shakespeare
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$1,000 |
DJ |
ENGLISH POETRY |
1993-01-15 |
#1930 |
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One of his sonnets begins, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" |
William Shakespeare
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$600 |
DJ |
POETS & POETRY |
1991-10-04 |
#1630 |
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Author of "Take, O Take Those Lips Away", "Hark. Hark! the Lark!" & "Shall I Compare Thee" |
William Shakespeare
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$1,000 |
DJ |
POETRY |
1990-03-07 |
#1278 |
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Generations of scholars have yet to figure out the identity of the "Mr. W.H." to whom he dedicated his sonnets |
Shakespeare
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$800 |
DJ |
POETRY |
1985-05-20 |
#181 |