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Great Sonnets
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Longfellow, Yeats, Frost, Poe, etc.
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
August 23rd 1994
by Dover Publications
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I’m not a big poetry person, but I do love the romantic stuff. And what, I ask you, is more romantic than a sonnet? That’s right—nothing! So, needless to say, I’m pretty pleased with this collection, which reads like a hit list of famous sonnets:
• Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
• John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud”
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the
Ways”
• Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus”
• Rober...more
• Shakespeare’s “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
• John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud”
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the
Ways”
• Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus”
• Rober...more
A very well selected compendium of sonnets showing the range of topics possible, techniques employed to greatest success, and highlighting lesser-known instances that are near-peerless, such those by Milton and Hartley Coleridge.
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It's Shakespeare. Enough said.
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I think this is a wonderful collection of sonnets. I admit that I was somewhat intimidated by them because they often take a little while to interpret, many of them being written in an old style. It's totally worth it if you take the time, though!
I was struck by how fanciful the sonnets are, how unabashedly in love with artifice. Pure virtuosity.
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. Hi...more
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“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 and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
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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 and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring barque,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
