William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life - Softcover

Schoenbaum, S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195024338 ISBN 13: 9780195024333

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1978

Synopsis

Gathers selections from Shakespeare's sonnets, songs, and plays, which are accompanied by Elizabethan paintings and illuminated manuscripts

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Porter is a firm believer in the doctrine that poets make the best critics of poetry. He left his native Australia in 1951 to live in London, where he is now well established as poet, editor, critic and broadcaster. His Collected Poems were published in 1983. He won the poetry category of the Whitbread Prize in 1988.

From the Inside Flap:

s reputation as a playwright overshadows the fact that he was perhaps an even greater poet. This selection of his poetry -- sonnets, and songs and verse from the plays, some justly familiar, others less known -- offers the quintessence of his remarkable art and provides an enticing introduction to his work.

The songs and sonnets are accompanied by Elizabethan miniatures and illuminated manuscripts, the verse from plays is accompanied by paintings of the nineteenth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0195024338
• ISBN 13: 9780195024333
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396