Revolutions - W. Shakespeare

30 Revolutions
The thirtieth poem in the collection. (* additional details below)

*NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: "Nativity once in the main of light: when a star has risen and entered on the full stream of light;—another of the astrological phrases no longer familiar.

Crooked eclipses: as coming athwart the Sun's apparent course.

Wordsworth, thinking probably of the "Venus" and the "Lucrece," said finely of Shakespeare "Shakespeare could not have written an Epic; he would have died of plethora of thought." This prodigality of nature is exemplified equally in his Sonnets. The copious selection here given (which from the wealth of the material, required greater consideration than any other portion of the Editor's task) contains many that will not be fully felt and understood without some earnestness of thought on the reader's part. But he is not likely to regret the labour."