The Book Depository Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Description: Shakespeare's Sonnets : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141396224 : 0141396229 : 26 Mar 2015 : Presents a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. This book contains poetry and themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality. It is a pocket-sized volume. The Book Depository Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780141396224
MPN: 0141396229
GTIN: 9780141396224
Author: M. Jefferies
Rating: 5
Review: This is clearly a milestone-work of scholarship on the sonnets and has duly taken its place among the most referenced works. The Renaissance context is painstakingly identified for the modern reader and the critical analysis of language is remarkable. Booth’s incredible research means he is able to explore semantic and syntactic possibilities as he explores interpretations of the sonnets. I’ve spent the last few weeks in the summer sunshine reading the sonnets in the editions of Booth, Helen Vendler and Don Paterson. I read a sonnet and see what I can work out for myself. I then look to Paterson for a reader-poet’s fresh, funny, perceptive take on the poem. He’s brilliant when dispensing with cultural reverence and calling it as he sees and feels it. Then I turn to Booth for a guide to language in its historical context. Readings come into sharper focus and make greater sense when he connects language with proverb, scripture, the demotic etc. He anatomises the possibilities of grammatical form and meaning such that the reader is able try out the suggestions. Finally, Vendler brings an amazing perceptiveness to the form and structure of poetic language. Her insights are like revelations as she present gifts of seeing to her readers. Sometimes I change the order of reading just to see what happens. It’s like setting up a debate with the three commentaries. They argue with each other and I listen in. The whole experience has been more exciting than reading a thriller, more enlightening than any lecture.
Author: Alan OBrien
Rating: 3
Review: A cheap version of the sonnets by WS. Looks and feels crappy. Paper feels like (recently) recycled toilet paper. I would give the Gift Edition to a bride that intends to divorce a few days later. Like a bride, it won't open flat.