own injunction in Sonnet 1: "Looke in thy heart and write." His personal signature lets him revitalise already well-worn themes. But without the reading, the thorough study of literary models, his heart would probably not have yielded very much of a poem, and certainly not the stellar performance we have here.Sonnet XXXI
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: Sonnet XXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
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