The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 760
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ISBN-10 : 9780191586095
ISBN-13 : 0191586099
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Synopsis The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Sonnets and Poems by : William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous vocabulary in which to explore love, praise of the beloved, sexual desire, and the power of rhetoric. That poem was so popular that most of Shakespeare's contemporaries thought of him as primarily a poet, rather than a playwright. Yet despite the power of Shakespeare's poems, and their foundational place within his oeuvre, modern readers have seldom been encouraged to engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This new edition explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it needs to be changed. The volume contains the complete Sonnets and poems with a full commentary. An extensive and lively introduction explores Shakespeare's poetic development, and shows how the poems relate to each other and to his dramatic works. The Sonnets are freshly interpreted, not as cryptic fragments of autobiography, but as works which ask their readers to think about relationships between lyric poems and the historical circumstances which may have given rise to them. The narrative poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are placed where they belong, at the origin of Shakespeare's thinking about what it means to desire and to be desired. The edition responds to the most recent scholarly work on the interpretation and dating of Shakespeare's poems and Sonnets. It also explores what the poems may have meant to their earliest readers. For this reason it also includes poems attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century, as well as those printed under his name in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 603
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ISBN-10 : 9780300085068
ISBN-13 : 0300085060
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Sonnets by : William Shakespeare

The classic love poems of William Shakespeare are accompanied by critical commentary.

The Poems

The Poems
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0521294118
ISBN-13 : 9780521294119
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Synopsis The Poems by : William Shakespeare

This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which are now generally regarded as Shakespeare's, excluding The Sonnets. It contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. The introduction to the two long narrative poems examines their place within the classical and Renaissance European traditions, an issue which also applies to The Phoenix and the Turtle. The Passionate Pilgrim is a miscellany of twenty sonnets and lyrics, containing only five poems which are certain to be Shakespeare's. John Roe analyses the conditions in which the collection was produced, and weighs the evidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover's Complaint and the much-debated question of its genre. He demonstrates how in his management of formal tropes Shakespeare, like the best Elizabethans, fashions a living language out of handbook oratory.

The Complete Sonnets and Poems

The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 768
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ISBN-10 : 019818431X
ISBN-13 : 9780198184317
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Sonnets and Poems by : William Shakespeare

'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.

Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets

Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9780520323544
ISBN-13 : 0520323548
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Interpretations in Shakespeare's Sonnets by : Hilton Landry

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets

Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets
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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Total Pages : 113
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ISBN-10 : 9781438115863
ISBN-13 : 1438115865
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets by : Harold Bloom

Provides insight into the poems & sonnets of William Shakespeare along with a brief biography.