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Jan 01

Poem of the Week - The Seven Ages of Man

"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins the famous poetic soliloquy from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven [...]

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Nov 18

Poem of the Week - O Mistress Mine

O Mistress Mine, known and read by many as one of William Shakespeare's most famous "love poems" was actually sung by Feste in Twelfth Night. It is one of a set of five "Shakespeare Songs" which Arthur Sullivan composed as "contemporary" music during 1863 and 1864. Since then it has been sung and recorded in [...]

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Oct 20

Poem of the Week - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is perhaps the best known and most well-loved of all his 154 sonnets; it may be the most famous lyric poem in English. It is addressed to a young man of great beauty and promise, and the speaker urges the young man to marry and perpetuate his virtues through children, and warns [...]

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