on the same page, as if "I love the admonitory and minatory tone of this poem, the way WS conceals his vulnerability, his great grief and disappointment, behind the dead baritone of this grim augur" wasn't profoundly at odds with the feeble joke eight lines later (riffing on a phrase of Vendler's): "I hope I never get invited to a nonce event. Har." This isn't just an incompatibility of tone but of substance. The experienced poet who feels that criticism should "honour the spirit of play in which the work was conceived" has nothing in common with the overwrought blogger who was saying, two paragraphs before, "The man's pain is intolerable." They communicate with us but not each other.from The Guardian: Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson--review
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