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Sonnets: William Shakespeare (Vintage Classics)

Sonnets: William Shakespeare (Vintage Classics)

by Germaine Greer (Introduction), Germaine Greer (Introduction), William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author), Germaine Greer (Introduction)

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Synopsis

INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one. Some are familiar - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - others unexpected, but together they form an extraordinary meditation on the nature of love, lust, beauty and time.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 26 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 0099518864
ISBN 13: 9780099518860
Book Overview: Shakespeare's complete sonnets in one beautiful edition

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.