Shakespeare's Sonnets

by Paul Edmondson, Stanley W Wells, Stanley Wells

Book Overview

The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a sequence, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019925611X
• ISBN13: 9780199256112
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

No sonnets--this is just about the sonnets. Very disappointed with this purchase. I want the sonne

Just send me the sonnets--no exegesis about them.