false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180710725m/1067993.jpg 3775764 116 'The annotation is consistently thoughtful and well judged, giving plenty of precise help with lexical and syntactical problems, and offering valuable verbal and cultural analogues from contemporary literature' 'No edition of these difficult and controversial poems will command agreement at all points, but this must now be the edition of first resort' Paul Hammond, Review of English Studies 'sharpens our focus on the documentary record of the Sonnets, and gives the best scholarly account yet of some of its words.' Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supplement "The new edition...edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones, is the clearest, most complete and up-to-date there is. She is the first editor for general readers not to mumble when dealing with the homoerotic aspect. Under her meticulous direction, the sequence opens out like a magical garden, its beauties enhanced, its mysterious prospects illuminated." Duncan Fallowell, The Independent `It is Duncan-Jones's intention as scholar and critic to confront the issue of sexuality which Kerrigan and other editors have consistently side-stepped...Hers is an edition which uniquely makes the Sonnets issue from the body's moods as well as the mind's.' Tom Paulin, London Review of Books `This new edition, handsome, crisp in annotation, and rich in historical detail, shows that the Sonnets are effectively Shakespeare's life's work...Its most radical claim is not the familiar one that the poems are homosexual, but that Shakespeare authorised their publication.' Evening Standard 1118349 1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets total:2031|5:972|4:647|3:341|2:67|1:4| 2031 8609 2482 68 5 7 false false Mon Jan 19 00:15:48 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 09:02:56 -0800 2009 Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII (abridged)

You're hot.
But not as hot as this poem.

Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI (abridged)

I'll love you even when you are sixty four
Or my name's not Heather Mills.

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I would not presume for a moment to "review" the sonnets, but when I teach the sonnets, which I do often, I insist that students purchase this, the Alden, edition. The editor is Katherine ...more...]]> 4 1 true false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969 Sat Jul 18 00:23:06 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 00:57:09 -0700 2009 1+ more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed May 06 20:31:27 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 20:42:36 -0700 2009 (See Trevor's review. I already have a Compete Shakespeare, but annotations are sweet. Actually, the in-text annotations done as footnotes can be really annoying, since I keep getting waylaid glancing down at them to see if there is something I'm missing, but after a lifetime of reading Shakespeare ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 14:36:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 14:36:50 -0700 2009
"Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov’st thou that which thou receiv’st not gladly,
Or...more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 18 17:08:35 -0800 2008 Tue May 05 05:40:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 18:25:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 00:43:06 -0800 2009 never stopped it seems
Also, I have handy a book of Monarch N...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 31 21:49:07 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 16:26:57 -0700 2008
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 07:02:53 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 08:42:22 -0700 2008 Sonnets are obviously (so obviously I hesitate to type it here) one of the great achievements in literature, fascinating for being a sequence that coheres when so many attempts like this have been rather mixed. The sonnets are especially impressive on the levels of wordplay - as is alm...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Dec 14 15:41:49 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 31 10:59:21 -0800 2008
I cann...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 19 18:26:57 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 19 16:09:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 08 14:18:39 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 14:22:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Aug 31 12:51:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 12:51:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Aug 17 14:01:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 14:02:23 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 03 09:04:18 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 09:06:10 -0700 2008 O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself here live:
Against this coming end you should prepare,
And your sweet semblance to some other give.
So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 12:57:16 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 25 12:54:34 -0700 2008
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the rem...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 21 09:58:03 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 09:59:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 19 08:41:22 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 08:42:59 -0800 2009 I can't say I completely understood most of these, but reading one of them every morning was a grace-saving way to start the day. ]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 29 18:08:03 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:08:13 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1067993