The Sonnets (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905716672 ISBN 13: 9781905716678

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2009

Synopsis

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published or 'entered' at Stationers' Hall by the publisher Thomas Thorpe on 20th May 1609. This 400th-anniversary edition contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy, and are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from his plays. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and for many they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.

With an Afterword by Peter Harness.

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Product Description:

Attractive gift edition with gilt-edged pages and a ribbon marker. With glossary and select bibliography Publisher: CRW Publishing Hardback ISBN 9781905716678

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

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""

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1905716672
• ISBN 13: 9781905716678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164