Ideas of Order

Ideas of Order

Author: Neil L. Rudenstine

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0374280150

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"A guide to Shakespeare's sonnets illustrating the narrative underlying the poems"--Publisher information.


Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Don Paterson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 0571263992

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Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and often irreverent guide, Don Paterson offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader.In a series of fascinating and highly entertaining commentaries placed alongside the poems themselves, Don Paterson discusses the meaning, technique, hidden structure and feverish narrative of the Sonnets, as well as the difficulties they present for the modern reader. Most importantly, however, he looks at what they tell us about William Shakespeare the lover - and what they might still tell us about ourselves.Full of energetic analysis, plain-English translations and challenging mini-essays on the craft of poetry - not to mention some wild speculation - this approachable handbook to the Sonnets offers an indispensable insight into our greatest Elizabethan writer by one of the leading poets of our own day.


The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Author: Helen Vendler

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999-11

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 0674637127

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Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.


Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Paul Edmondson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9780199256105

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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 their dates of composition, to their relation to other poetry of the period and to Shakespeare's plays, that even the most naïve reader will find it difficult to read them with an innocent mind. Shakespeare's Sonnets dispels the myths and focuses on the poems. Considering different possible ways of reading the Sonnets, Wells and Edmondson place them in a variety of literary and dramatic contexts--in relation to other poetry of the period, to Shakespeare's plays, as poems for performance, and in relation to their reception and reputation. Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism. Shakespeare's Sonnets is an exciting contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, ideal for students and the general reader interested in these intriguing poems.


Nothing Like the Sun

Nothing Like the Sun

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780393315073

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Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.