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Love 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



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The 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—Independent

Shakespeare 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

Sonnets

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 19 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9781784878238
      978-1784878238
      ISBN-10 1784878235
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      Poetry Books by William Shakespeare

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Love 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 Review
      The 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—Independent

      Shakespeare 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

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