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Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Dover Thrift edition of Shakespeare's sonnets contains all his sonnets with no adornment, no commentary, and no "translation". All it contains is the great man's words - what more do you need ? There is a very brief introduction and a short glossary of some word meanings, but nothing compared to the analysis and commentary you get in other editions. It is a slim book on fairly cheap paper - easy to carry about with you; and what do you expect for £1.25 ? I love it !
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William Shakespeare is best known as a playwright. When you think of Shakespeare, you automatically think of plays -- "Romeo and Juliet," "Macbeth," "Hamlet," etc.
But he was also a poet of considerable skill. And while he sprinkled his various plays with poetry and songs, his poems are best appreciated when they're read all by themselves -- particularly the cluster of brilliant "Sonnets" that he penned. These works just have a unique, hauntingly vivid flavour of their own.
Each sonnet has no title, and is simply identified by numbers. And while Shakespeare's love poems are the best known of these works, he addresses different themes in theme -- old age, writer's block loneliness, the cruelty of the world, sex, beauty, a mysterious rival poet, and Shakespeare's own complicated romantic feelings (love that "looks upon tempests and is not shaken").
And these poems are absolutely lovely. Some of these sonnets are pretty well-known ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate") but most of them are a little more obscure. They have vivid metaphors and imagery ("let not winter's ragged hand deface," "gold candles fix'd in heaven's air") and hauntingly lovely passages ("What is your substance, whereof are you made,/That millions of strange shadows on you tend?").
And these sonnets really give you new insights into Shakespeare as a person -- he feels uncertainty, passionate love, unhappiness, lust and quirky humor. But while it's obvious these sonnets were deeply personal, they can still be appreciated on their own, particularly as love poetry.
William Shakespeare's "Sonnets" are rich with meaning, language and atmosphere -- the Elizabethan English takes a little deciphering, but it's well worth it.
But he was also a poet of considerable skill. And while he sprinkled his various plays with poetry and songs, his poems are best appreciated when they're read all by themselves -- particularly the cluster of brilliant "Sonnets" that he penned. These works just have a unique, hauntingly vivid flavour of their own.
Each sonnet has no title, and is simply identified by numbers. And while Shakespeare's love poems are the best known of these works, he addresses different themes in theme -- old age, writer's block loneliness, the cruelty of the world, sex, beauty, a mysterious rival poet, and Shakespeare's own complicated romantic feelings (love that "looks upon tempests and is not shaken").
And these poems are absolutely lovely. Some of these sonnets are pretty well-known ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate") but most of them are a little more obscure. They have vivid metaphors and imagery ("let not winter's ragged hand deface," "gold candles fix'd in heaven's air") and hauntingly lovely passages ("What is your substance, whereof are you made,/That millions of strange shadows on you tend?").
And these sonnets really give you new insights into Shakespeare as a person -- he feels uncertainty, passionate love, unhappiness, lust and quirky humor. But while it's obvious these sonnets were deeply personal, they can still be appreciated on their own, particularly as love poetry.
William Shakespeare's "Sonnets" are rich with meaning, language and atmosphere -- the Elizabethan English takes a little deciphering, but it's well worth it.
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This collection is a great way to enjoy Shakespeare's sonnets. A cheap edition too.
However trying to get the number of copies of the book I needed, for prizes in a sonnet slam, became impossible. Amazon limited the number I could buy and then when I came back a few days later had hiked the price. I ordered a second batch and then found that the order was sat on because I'd chosen economy post. I tried to go through customer services who like to ask you whether you're satisfied when they have done exactly nothing to deal with the query that's been raised - twice. Because they were unable to guarantee to deliver the second order of books within their own delivery time for economy post, in fact they weren't able to even deal with my query to refuse or offer such a guarantee, I had to cancel the order and get the books elsewhere.
Buy this book but consider alternatives to Amazon unless you want to spend extra money on their extortionate express postage rates or be penalised for using economy post by being made to wait for them eventually dispatch your order.
However trying to get the number of copies of the book I needed, for prizes in a sonnet slam, became impossible. Amazon limited the number I could buy and then when I came back a few days later had hiked the price. I ordered a second batch and then found that the order was sat on because I'd chosen economy post. I tried to go through customer services who like to ask you whether you're satisfied when they have done exactly nothing to deal with the query that's been raised - twice. Because they were unable to guarantee to deliver the second order of books within their own delivery time for economy post, in fact they weren't able to even deal with my query to refuse or offer such a guarantee, I had to cancel the order and get the books elsewhere.
Buy this book but consider alternatives to Amazon unless you want to spend extra money on their extortionate express postage rates or be penalised for using economy post by being made to wait for them eventually dispatch your order.
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