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Work #1628 · Career-spanning

Sonnets

William Shakespeare
c. 1590s–1604; printed 1609 · English
Lyric sonnet sequence (154 sonnets) · English Renaissance / Elizabethan-Jacobean poetry

Shakespeare's 1609 'Sonnets' — 154 lyric meditations on love, time, beauty, and the Fair Youth / Dark Lady

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Attribute Sonnets (Career-spanning)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature not engaged
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality not engaged
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality not engaged
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity not engaged

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

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Time

Sonnets

1590s-1604 composition; 1609 publication.

Space

Sonnets

Elizabethan-Jacobean England.

Matter

Sonnets

Cycle of 154 sonnets.

Observer

Sonnets

Shakespearean lyric speaker.

Energy

Sonnets

Lyric-meditative-passionate energies.

Information

Sonnets

Single printed quarto (1609).

Internal Tensions

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Sonnets

The supreme English-Renaissance lyric sequence; foundational text of subsequent English love-poetry.