![]() ![]() Shakespeare refuses to give in to the hyperbolic imagery other poets indulge in. The sonnet is both an unusual love poem and a comment on the style of love poetry written by Shakespeare’s precursors and peers. The title of the novel comes from the first line of Sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”. Burgess “would never find a more appropriate publishing date”. The work was “almost haemorrhoidally agonizing” but if it were to be done 1964 was the time to do it. ![]() He describes the work as a labour of tortured love, a “ghastly but fascinating task” that by January 1963 he could put off no longer. The process of bringing that work on to paper and into print, however, was a difficult one, as is demonstrated by the title of his article about it, “Genesis and Headache”. Her novel was, he thought, unlikely to be the only one of its kind: “With the quartercentury looming, many of our foolhardiest novelists must be busy preparing fictional libels on the Bard”.īurgess was by this point already at work on his own fictionalised biography of Shakespeare. In May 1963 Anthony Burgess reviewed – not entirely favourably – Henrietta Buckmaster’s book, All of the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of Shakespeare. Nothing Like the Sun: a story of Shakespeare’s Love-Life: ![]()
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