Shakespeare & Love Sonnets

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Featuring a selection of tiie ssonnets of Shakespeare and other distinguished poets, this stunning edition is illustrated by some of the world's most beautiful works of art - a celebration of the life and work of some of the world's greatest and most celebrated love poets.

Part of a new, full-color series commemorating the best-loved works of our finest writers.

Shakespeare's sonnets have long been regarded as some of the finest, most graceful expressions of love and devotion to emerge from the Elizabethan age. His skill in perfecting this particular form of verse is sustained through a sequence of 154 sonnets, each one yielding a lyrical intensity and passion as exhilarating as any of his plays.
Several other notable poets were among Shakespeare's contemporaries. Sir Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Philip Sidney all made use of the sonnet form to explore themes of love and commitment. Later poets, mcluding John Milton and John Donne, ¦ilso used the traditional... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Featuring a selection of tiie ssonnets of Shakespeare and other distinguished poets, this stunning edition is illustrated by some of the world's most beautiful works of art - a celebration of the life and work of some of the world's greatest and most celebrated love poets.

Part of a new, full-color series commemorating the best-loved works of our finest writers.

Shakespeare's sonnets have long been regarded as some of the finest, most graceful expressions of love and devotion to emerge from the Elizabethan age. His skill in perfecting this particular form of verse is sustained through a sequence of 154 sonnets, each one yielding a lyrical intensity and passion as exhilarating as any of his plays.
Several other notable poets were among Shakespeare's contemporaries. Sir Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Philip Sidney all made use of the sonnet form to explore themes of love and commitment. Later poets, mcluding John Milton and John Donne, ¦ilso used the traditional model popularized by Shakespeare to explore similar themes of love or attachment, id the sonnet has survived into the twentieth century as a traditional, yet powerful, form of love poem.
Celebrating some of the finest and best-loved sonnets, this stunning edition is illustrated by a selection of the world's most beautiful works of art. Carefully researched and reproduced, they richly complement this inspiring collection of poems. i

This selection was compiled and written by 0. B. Duane who was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she concentrated on the works of Irish writers. She is autlior of several books on literature and art, including Robert Bums in this series. She now lives in London. Vissza