About this title: This new edition focuses on Shakespeare's Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic, and other groupings. The volume also addresses the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the poems. To what extent are The Sonnets autobiographical? What is the nature of the 'love', strongly expressed, between the 'poet', the 'youth' and the 'Dark Lady'? Can they, apart from the poet, be identified? Who is the 'rival poet'? When were The Sonnets written and in what order? What were the circumstances surrounding ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780140714234ISBN:0140714235
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wraps have light wear, spine unbent. Pages are clean, text has pencil notation. Notation on fep. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780821225592ISBN:0821225596
Description: Cook, Ferris. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 168 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Cook, Ferris. Very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 168 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Very good read more
Edition: New Rev ed.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780451522627ISBN:0451522621
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Signet Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Cook, Ferris. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 168 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
"Five stars for mastery of the sonnet form. But four stars maybe for content. I found myself bored with the same ideas over and over again. Shakespeare even admits in one of the sonnets that he is writing the same sonnet over and over. He is obsessed with beauty and mutability."
"I just like Shakespeare. After taking a class on him in college, the becomes very easy to read. I love his words, he uses very little to say a wide variety of perspectives in one sentence. No one is quite like him. This book is as great as everything else he writes."
"I just like Shakespeare. After taking a class on him in college, the becomes very easy to read. I love his words, he uses very little to say a wide variety of perspectives in one sentence. No one is quite like him. This book is as great as everything else he writes."
"When I was a baby-child my mother would read me Shakespeare's sonnets instead of childrens stories before I went to sleep & I still find them lovely 7 comforting."
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