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Shakespeare\'s Sonnets Deluxe Hardcover Edition Cloth Bound in Slip Case, NEW Gift Quality!
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Language : English Print length : 160 pages This volume contains all 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. First published in 1609, these verses explore enduring themes of love, beauty, mortality, and the unstoppable passage of time. The collection is traditionally split, with the first 126 sonnets addressed to a young man (the \"Fair Youth\") and the remaining poems focusing on a mysterious woman (the \"Dark Lady\").T.S. Eliot once wrote that, \"Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion,\" and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing to literati and laymen alike. Surrounded by mystery, these poems of devotion and jealousy, of a young courtier and a Dark Lady, have been the subject of endless speculation. They are highly mystical and at the same time highly honest; as W. H. Auden wrote, \"...what is astonishing about the sonnets, especially when one remembers the age in which they were written, is the impression they make of naked autobiographical confession.\"Because they are witty, passionate, personal, and often ever bawdy, The Sonnets stand as one of the greatest poetic tributes ever written to a beloved.
