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Sonnets: Critical Essay by Jane Hedley

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SOURCE: "Since First Your Eye I Eyed: Shakspeare's Sonnets and the Poetics of Narcissism," in Style, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 1-30.

In the following excerpt, Hedley contends that self-love or narcissism is pervasive in Shakespeare's sonnets. After observing that the sonnet genre in general can be perceived as one where the poet is "talking to himself, " Hedley also remarks that Shakespeare's sonnets in particular convey narcissism through their use of puns and through the poet's clear desire to become one with his beloved.

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