The Sonnets: Poems of Love - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William; Burto, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312744994 ISBN 13: 9780312744991

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1980

Synopsis

This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they 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 their publication?

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Review:

"They are the work of someone whose ear is unerring." --W.H. Auden

"He is writing about the world, the largeness of which he had perhaps only recently discovered." --Mark Van Doren

"The striking peculiarity of Shakespeare's mind was its generic quality, its power to communicate with all other minds." --William Hazlitt

"Shakespeare is the greatest university of all." --William Carlos Williams

From the Author:

Moral and immoral remarks and comments
I think this book of poetry really fulfills the needs of teenagers alike all over the world. My intention before authorizing this canonizing book of illustrious poems was to share with the world the genius that William Shakespeare truly was. Thank You and please very much enjoy my entry and my collection of beautiful interpretations and analyzations. Written by Justin Pattner, eleventh grade student at Horace Mann in the Bronx,New York. Thank you for your time and efforts in reading my comments.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0312744994
• ISBN 13: 9780312744991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154