Complete Sonnets
Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable...
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Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486266862 (0486266869)
ASIN: 486266869
Publish date: January 1st 1991
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 74
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Reference,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Anthologies,
Plays,
Collections,
College,
Poetry,
17th Century
Excluding the two major narrative poems: Snooze. It's not bad, just boring. These days only two kinds of people genuinely like these; those who can cope with Love and the Moon poetry, which, thematically, has been losing ground on my attention since I became an adult and those who are obsessed wit...
This review should sum it up: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77941316As for the rest (excluding the sonnets), they are fine, but so long. On the over all, I am more or less unable to appreciate Shakespeare's poetry, just as I was more or less unable to appreciate the bulk of his plays. The poe...
This is a seriously wonderful edition--the glossing is actually quite helpful, and the introduction is thoroughly researched and wide-reaching in both its historical situating of the poems as well as the elements at work in the poems.
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