by Stanley Appelbaum, William Shakespeare
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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