The classic love poems of William Shakespeare are accompanied by prose summaries and critical notes

The Book collects 100 sonnets produced by Shakespeare (1564--1616), the greatest British playwright and poet and world most outstanding writer. His sonnets are crowned as “Immortal Masterpiece” offered to the world. Ben Jonson, a playwright and poet in the same period of Shakespeare, made such comments on Shakespeare: My Britain, you should cheer for triumph, the whole Europe should pay a tribute to him; he is an immortal figure rather than a hero of his time. “The Sonnets” bear three values: love poems necessary for the persons in love, A must-collection of Shakespeare fans, and classics of sonnets researchers. “The Sonnets” are not the simple narration, they touch upon the fundamental elements of human nature and are rated as great works in British literature history.

Illustrations and an index of first lines accompany all one hundred and fifty four of Shakespeare's sonnets

The Book collects 100 sonnets produced by Shakespeare (1564--1616), the greatest British playwright and poet and world most outstanding writer. His sonnets are crowned as “Immortal Masterpiece” offered to the world. Ben Jonson, a playwright and poet in the same period of Shakespeare, made such comments on Shakespeare: My Britain, you should cheer for triumph, the whole Europe should pay a tribute to him; he is an immortal figure rather than a hero of his time. “The Sonnets” bear three values: love poems necessary for the persons in love, A must-collection of Shakespeare fans, and classics of sonnets researchers. “The Sonnets” are not the simple narration, they touch upon the fundamental elements of human nature and are rated as great works in British literature history.

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This book is at once an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a guide to how to read these exquisite and complex poems, and is designed both for readers new to the poems and for those who are familiar with the Sonnets but are ready to engage with them afresh. It is the only current edition which provides an original-spelling text of the poems: that is, it prints the poems as they appeared in the first edition, Shake-speares Sonnets (1609), preserving the spelling, punctuation, italics, and capitalization of the original, with only minor interventions where that edition manifestly needs correction. The advantages (and occasional hazards) of reading an original-spelling text are explained, and detailed help is provided in order to assist readers who may be unfamiliar with the conventions of early-modern spelling and punctuation. The introduction focuses on how we might read the poetry, discussing the sonnet form, the tradition within which Shakespeare was writing, and the ways in which readers might explore the richly suggestive language which he used. The forms of sexuality evoked in the Sonnets are fully charted, both in the introduction and the notes, but readers are steered away from biographical speculation. The annotation which accompanies the text of the poems provides detailed and carefully-targeted glosses which set out the likely meanings of the words in order to help the reader construct their own understanding of the poem. The text is followed by appendices on Shakespeare's rhetoric and complex words which will enable the modern reader to appreciate the intricate verbal play of the poetry.

Shakespeare's sonnets deal with a passionate friendship, an unfortunate seduction, conflict over a rival, and an infatuation with the Dark Lady (view table of contents)

Presents the verses, songs, and sonnets that imbue Shakespeare's dramatic works with their distinctive music and poetry

Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, "a moment's monument." From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, and the expression of passionate feelings and thoughts. The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems. The commentaries by Stephen Burt and David Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets. Also included is a general introductory essay, in which the authors examine the sonnet form and its long and fascinating history, from its origin in medieval Sicily to its English appropriation in the sixteenth century to sonnet writing today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking parts of the world.

Product Description: Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poems for which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is undoubtedly best know are Sonnets from the Portuguese...read more

Product Description: This stunning volume contains each of Shakespeare's sonnets presented in a beautiful collector's format. David West draws on his distinguished career as a classicist and literary critic to examine Shakespeare's sonnets in a new light...read more

Product Description: John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world, while debates still rage as to the identity of the Dark Lady and how autobiographical the sonnets really are. This revised edition has been updated in the light of new scholarship and critical analysis since its first publication which won a wide range of critical acclaim...read more

‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection of three thousand sonnets written by poets between 1837 and the early years of the twentieth century. The work contains a representative selection of sonnets for each individual poet, in order to display the diversity and innovation brought to the sonnet form by Victorian poets.

The language of Shakespeare's Sonnets, like that of poetry in general, is both highly compressed and highly structured. While most often discussed in terms of its images and its metrical and other formal structures, the language of the Sonnets, like that

A celebratory anthology of the sonnet traces its development through more than five centuries, in a volume that evaluates the sonnet's rise and fall throughout history as well as the numerous ways in which esteemed poets interpreted the sonnet form. 25,000 first printing.

Includes the bard's complete lyrical verse and an introduction by a noted Shakespearean scholar

Product Description: Cynthia (1604) is a fascinating sonnet sequence by Richard Nugent, a member of a long established Old English dynasty based in County Meath. The poems which record Nugent's hopeless love for an unyielding mistress subtly transpose many of the reigning conceits of Tudor poetry...read more

Product Description: Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading...read more