false 42038 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg 42038 116 1118349 1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets total:2068|5:988|4:664|3:345|2:67|1:4| 2068 8769 2543 70 947 3.86 509753 12701 43548376 1713956 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.26 1730 1609 5 7 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...]]> 63955450 974210 2345596 0140714235 9780140714234 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2345596.The_Sonnets 4.07 14 1609 4 1 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...]]> 55219618 1662632 606148 0521678374 9780521678377 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176237389m/606148.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176237389s/606148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606148.The_Sonnets 4.50 8 1609 0 0 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...]]> 70276252 1758594 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 0 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...]]> 40414139 175635 606148 0521678374 9780521678377 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176237389m/606148.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176237389s/606148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606148.The_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 6 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...]]> 36714768 1466146 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 0 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...]]> 19169637 793471 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 0 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...]]> 17660950 989694 32520 0300085060 9780300085068 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168391498m/32520.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168391498s/32520.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32520.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.49 39 1609 5 0 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...]]> 10439496 424514 2074051 1855013592 9781855013599 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1197675704m/2074051.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1197675704s/2074051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2074051.The_Sonnets 4.74 19 1609 5 1 false Fri Dec 14 15:41:49 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 31 10:59:21 -0800 2008
I cann...more...]]> 30601125 406122 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 4 0 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...]]> 73895156 1332965 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 0 false Thu Oct 08 14:18:39 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 14:22:01 -0700 2009 69585878 2648205 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 4 0 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 67781478 2401192 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 4 0 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 34435532 1585767 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 0 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...]]> 15918296 144642 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 4 0 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...]]> 53471592 902514 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 5 0 false Tue Apr 21 09:58:03 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 09:59:39 -0700 2009 43572734 1839355 42038 1903436575 9781903436578 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438m/42038.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169814438s/42038.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.24 2068 1609 3 0 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. ]]> 50859154 1845519 821055 1599868741 9781599868745 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178677268m/821055.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178677268s/821055.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821055.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets 4.11 62 1609 3 0 false Sun Mar 29 18:08:03 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:08:13 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=42038