Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
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Potent homoeroticism and a few good ending couplets salvage this otherwise mediocre work of stale verse.
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Read in October, 2008
Excellent work, though reading dozens of poems on the same topic gets tiresome after a while. Shakespeare's decision to write in 3 quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet instead of the traditional 8 line/6 line form gives his sonnets an appealing cadence, and his choice to completely do away with the Petrarchian convention of whining incessantly about unrequited love was refreshing.
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Read in January, 1998
back in highschool when all of my classmates go-gaga over the new adaptation of romeo&juliet with leonardo dicaprio as the new age romeo with 45 cal. for a sword...they were all quoting the lines of the play...i joined the wave...but on my own secretly i kept my copy of the complete sonnets of shakespeare...its not the same copy shown here..it was old and the pages were yellow...then came when we have to do the sonnets..I LOST MY COPY...lucky me when i was in college i got a sweet deal..i go...more
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