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Book SynopsisLove sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love.
Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery - why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? - each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive.
INTRODUCED BY ANDREW McMILLAN
'This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love' Don Paterson, Guardian
Trade ReviewThe great master who knew everything...an unspeakable source of delight—Charles Dickens
Every age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst... Shakespeare haunts our language—
IndependentShakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time—Peter Ackroyd
Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third—T.S. Eliot
Every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself—Alexander Pope
