{"product_id":"the-sonnets-9781861715371","title":"The Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Shakespeare | Mark Tuley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Crescent Moon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE SONNETS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Sonnets represent the highpoint of love poetry in English: they continue to astonish and delight with the abundance of their word play and the intensity of the erotic feelings they depict. This book prints all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets and provides a commentary on this narrative of rivalry in love. \u003c\/p\u003e \u2028 \u003cp\u003e The Sonnets are central to William Shakespeare's art. They display Shakespeare's poetic talent at its height. The Sonnets are the great love poem sequence in British poetry, as well as being the longest single group of English Renaissance sonnets. They rival in grandeur, skill and cleverness the poetic sequence from which they ultimately derive (via Sir Thomas Wyatt): Francesco Petrarch's Rime Sparse. In Shakespeare's Sonnets, introspection and self-analysis is as rigorous as in Petrarch's Canzoniere, but Shakespeare's bitterness and sense of irony is more deeply ingrained than in Petrarch's poems. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Shakespeare's Sonnets came late in the development of the Petrarchan sonnet sequence. They are decadent, late efforts of an already (by the 1590s) old-fashioned poetic form. Yet Shakespeare manages to infuse the sonnet sequence with an extraordinary power and magic. The Sonnets, indeed, contain some of the most marvellous moments in any (English) poetry. The magnificence of the opening lines of the Sonnets, for instance, is undeniable: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (18.1) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Full many a glorious morning have I seen \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kissing with golden face the meadows green, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy (33.1-4) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all (40.1) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sweet love, renew thy force (56.1) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Let me not to the marriage of true minds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Admit impediments: love is not love \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Which alters when it alteration finds, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Or bends with the remover to remove. (116.1-4) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e My love is as a fever, longing still (147.1) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Each poem is printed on its own on the page, without footnotes and annotations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Includes new illustrations of Shakespeare and his art, an introduction, notes on certain sonnets, and a bibliography of references. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e www.crmoon.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46503413055639,"sku":"9781861715371","price":1040.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781861715371.webp?v=1769188883","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sonnets-9781861715371","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}