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1	Sonnets more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Shakespeare's Sonnets more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist David West is a highly distinguished classicist and literary critic. Here, he explores the sonnets of Shakespeare. The application of the techniques of classical scholarship to the sonnets results in the one of the most impressive and delightful contributions to Shakespeare studies in recent years. At a time when our familiarity with Shakespeare's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Complete Sonnets more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language of remarkable power, precision, and beauty. Glossary of archaic terms. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
4	The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets more books like this by Helen Hennessy Vendler add to wishlist A complete facsimile edition of Shakespeare's sonnets, with a commentary on each work, arranged by the celebrated scholar and professor of English at Harvard University. see all copies from $6.60! new only from $25.50! \| SVS
5	Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language -- now in a handsome edition featuring exquisite color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.93! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Sonnets, the Pel more books like this by William Shakespeare, Professor John Hollander (Editor), Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.17! \| SVS
7	Sonnets from the Portuguese more books like this by Elizabeth Barrett Browning add to wishlist These love poems have long been considered the finest ever written by a woman in the English language, and their literary excellence is surpassed only by the sonnets of Shakespeare. First published in 1850, "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is composed of 44 interlocking poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote secretly for her husband, Robert Browning. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Penguin Book of the Sonnet more books like this by Various, Phillis Levin (Editor) add to wishlist One of the oldest literary forms of the post-classical world, the sonnet has engaged nearly every well-known poet writing in a Western language. This collection reveals how each writer, from William Wordsworth to Wilfred Owen, met the challenge of transforming an inherited pattern of convention. The result is a living conversation between past and ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $11.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Great Sonnets more books like this by Paul Negri (Editor) add to wishlist Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Masterpieces by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Swinburne, Yeats, Frost, Poe, many more. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets more books like this by Clinton Heylin add to wishlist On the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's "Sonnets" comes a fiercely entertaining literary detective story tracing their unusual history see all copies from $5.95! new only from $7.14! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint more books like this by William Shakespeare, John Kerrigan (Introduction by) add to wishlist When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Complete Sonnets and Poems more books like this by William Shakespeare, Neil H Fisher (Designer) add to wishlist Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| SVS
13 view cover	Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820-1845 more books like this by William Wordsworth add to wishlist see all copies from $37.95! new only from $48.45! \| first editions
14 view cover	Shakespeare's Sonnets more books like this by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells add to wishlist The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around ... see all copies from $7.12! new only from $26.53!
15 view cover	Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays more books like this by James Schiffer (Editor) add to wishlist Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse ... see all copies from $21.99! new only from $37.32! \| SVS
16 view cover	Sonnets: From Dante to the Present more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor) add to wishlist The sonnet form has expressed multiple passions for hundreds of years. This anthology, edited by Hollander--both a celebrated poet and a scholar of verse forms--presents scores of examples, including the definitive works of Shakespeare, Petrarch, and Spenser, as well as playful and defiant examples by a range of 20th century practitioners ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $7.31! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Oxford Book of Sonnets more books like this by John Fuller (Editor) add to wishlist This chronological collection of English language sonnets celebrates the steadfastness of this favorite form. A touchstone in poetics, the sonnet form resounds whether a poet embraces its traditional elements or forges anew like Hopkins or cummings. Here, a survey of 328 examples, including work by masters Wyatt, Shakespeare, Keats, Frost, and ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $6.56!
18 view cover	The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology more books like this by Edward Hirsch (Editor), Eavan Boland (Editor) add to wishlist This illuminating anthology of five and a half centuries of the sonnet follows the form through its various moments and makers. The editors, poets themselves, pay particular attention to the way in which the sonnet thrived or waned over the centuries. They also focus on the way in which individual poets claimed these fourteen lines: lengthened ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $21.87! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Shakespeare's Poems & Sonnets more books like this by William Shakespeare, Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist This guide provides an introduction to a critical analysis of Shakespeare''s poems. It features a few poems, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on the important aspects of each work and an analysis of the texts' see all copies from $2.94! new only from $24.99!
20 view cover	Sonnets from the Portugese more books like this by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William S Peterson (Editor), Julia Markus (Editor) add to wishlist These love poems have long been considered the finest ever written by a woman in the English language, and their literary excellence is surpassed only by the sonnets of Shakespeare. First published in 1850, "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is composed of 44 interlocking poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote secretly for her husband, Robert Browning. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist The sonnets in this collection divide into two parts; the first 126 are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love for the notorious "Dark Lady". In addition to the sonnets, this volume includes two lengthy poems on classical themes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The sonnets and narrative poems more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Sonnets: Poems of Love more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist IN see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets more books like this by Lisa Freinkel add to wishlist -- Religious Studies Review see all copies from $4.06! new only from $5.98!
25 view cover	The House of Life more books like this by Dante Gabriel Rossetti add to wishlist Dante Rossetti was born in 1828. He was an English translator, poet, painter and illustrator. Rossetti's poetry reflected the tragedies in his life beginning with the suicide of his wife after the death of their baby. He buried his poems with her but later had them exhumed and published. In later years he became addicted to drugs and fought with ... see all copies from $4.04! new only from $9.11! \| first editions \| SVS

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