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William Shakespeare's Sonnets - Poems of Love, Beauty, Time, and Mortality
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781627551687
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: May 14 2013
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Love, desire, jealousy, beauty, betrayal, aging, and the relentless passage of time converge in one of the greatest poetic sequences in the English language.
First published in 1609, William Shakespeare's Sonnets contains 154 poems that explore the emotional and philosophical complexities of human attachment. Addressed to figures traditionally identified as the Fair Youth, the Dark Lady, and the Rival Poet, the sonnets move through admiration, longing, devotion, resentment, sexual desire, self-doubt, and reconciliation. Shakespeare repeatedly returns to the tension between beauty's brief life and poetry's power to preserve what time destroys.
Written primarily in the form now known as the Shakespearean sonnet, these poems combine tightly controlled structure with striking imagery, verbal wit, and psychological intensity. Familiar works such as Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, Sonnet 29, When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, and Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, stand beside darker poems concerned with lust, infidelity, humiliation, illness, and death.
The sequence remains compelling because it resists simple interpretations of love and beauty. Shakespeare presents affection as sustaining and destructive, idealized and physical, faithful and treacherous. These poems reward repeated reading and continue to influence poets, scholars, performers, and readers seeking language equal to the most difficult and enduring human emotions.
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