Sonnets

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

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Germaine Greer (Introduction), Andrew McMillan (Introduction), McMillan Andrew (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2023
• EAN: 9781784878238
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-823-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 178 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics Love Poems
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Shakespeare Plays, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean