The sonnets ; and, A lover"s complaint

The sonnets ; and, A lover"s complaint by William Shakespeare Download PDF EPUB FB2

The sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time.

Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally /5(18). Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer. In his illuminating introduction, John Kerrigan examines how the sonnets are intertwined, the ways in which these works have been interpreted and the themes running through by: The book contains sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (I am sure we could all come up with a few of those) and an introduction that is a quarter of the book.

This is an enjoyable book and a quick dip in to Shakespeare without having to read As I have previously said about love poetry we men need all the help we can when it comes to trying to /5.

About The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint. Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

There's a joy in holding a beautifully bound book of poems in your hand- - and even more so when you're reading Shakespeare's Sonnets. Featuring the sonnets as well as the longer 'A Lover's Complaint,' this volume will delight any lover of words. Line-numbers included every five lines.

Introduction and list of 'further reading' also :   Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer. In his illuminating introduction, John Kerrigan examines how the sonnets are intertwined, the ways in which these works have been interpreted and the themes running through them/5(2K).

Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets both appeal as individual poems, and as an intricately related sequence. This volume presents all the sonnets in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in /5(K).

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