Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

"Shakespeare's Sonnets" are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and often irreverent guide, Don Paterson offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader. In a series of fascinating and highly entertaining commentaries placed alongside the poems themselves, Don Paterson discusses the meaning, technique, hidden structure and feverish narrative of the Sonnets, as well as the difficulties they present for the modern reader. Most importantly, however, he looks at what they tell us about William Shakespeare the lover - and what they might still tell us about ourselves.

ISBN 0571245056   Pages 528 ISBN13 9780571245055 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 402 Publisher Faber and Faber   Published in London Imprint Faber and Faber Poetry   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 126 Publication date 05 Apr 2012   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 821.3   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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