Shakespeare's Sonnets ; and A lover's complaint / edited, with an introduction, by Stanley Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Wells, Stanley, 1930-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sonnets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sonnets, English.

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Sonnets.

Lover's complaint.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Summary:

Shakespeare's sonnets are the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Here Shakespeare celebrated his passionate friendship with a young man, deplored his friend's seduction by Shakespeare's own mistress, expressed his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and in the final group of poems explored his own humiliated infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him. Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets exert a double appeal: as individual poems, and as a complexly interrelated sequence. All 154 poems are presented here in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. This volume also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. The text of this edition is that prepared for the forthcoming Complete Oxford Shakespeare. About the Editor: Stanley Wells is General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare and Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford.

Contains:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Spurious and doubtful works. Lover's complaint. 1985.

OCLC:

12132379