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Scott Newstok

is professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. He is the author of How to Think like Shakespeare and Quoting Death in Early Modern England, editor of Paradise Lost: A Primer and Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare, and co-editor (with Ayanna Thompson) of Weyward Macbeth. His website is https://www.scottnewstok.com/.
How to think like a sonnet, or, fourteen ways of looking around a room
A jeweled binding for Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare and Beyond

How to think like a sonnet, or, fourteen ways of looking around a room

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Scott Newstok

A sonnet packs a lot of meaning into a tiny space. Here are fourteen ways (one for each line) of approaching Shakespeare’s most well-known poems.