Sonnets (Poetry)

Sonnets (Poetry)
William Shakespeare, Andrew McMillan, Germaine Greer
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19 Jan 2023 UK
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9781784878238
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Shakespeare' s complete sonnets in one beautiful edition. Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare' s sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery - why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? - each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive. ' This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love' Don Paterson, Guardian
The great master who knew everything. . . an unspeakable source of delight-Charles Dickens Every age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst. . . Shakespeare haunts our language-Independent Shakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time-Peter Ackroyd Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third-T. S. Eliot Every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself-Alexander Pope
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594. The first edition of the sonnets was published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership. Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781784878238
Published: 19 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 176

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