The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-08-26

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0141914661

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When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0140436847

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When this volume of Shakespeare’s poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous ‘dark lady’ - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover’s Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

Author: Jonathan F. S. Post

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0198717571

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Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in these works. He also considers the debates surrounding their disputed authorship, and the impact these poems had, from contemporary readers right up to today.

A Mirror for Lovers
A Mirror for Lovers

Author: William F. Zak

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 0739175106

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A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak, seeks to identify in Shake-speare'e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition born in Plato's Symposium. Through this study, Zak traces the power of an idea to endure, re-animate, and enrich itself through time: Plato's discrimination of the true nature of love in The Symposium. Born anew in its medieval reincarnations (The Romance of the Rose, The Vita Nuova, and The Canzoniere of Petrarch), the tradition begun in Plato's Symposium was then resuscitated in the Elizabethan sonnet sequence revival, most notably in Shake-speare's Sonnets. With extended examination of all the texts in the Q manuscript, A Mirror for Lovers makes a case for the mutually illuminating relationship among the sonnets to the fair young man and the dark lady, "A Lover's Complaint," and the mysterious dedication that until now have never received attention as an integral symbolic matrix of meaning.

A Lover's Complaint
A Lover's Complaint

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

Published: 2021-10-31

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 3986776427

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A Lover's Complaint William Shakespeare - A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets. It is given the title A Lover's Complaint in the book, which was published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. Although published as Shakespeare's work, the poem's authorship has become a matter of critical debate. The majority opinion is that it is by Shakespeare.