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The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 464 pages | ISBN 9780140436846 | 01 Jan 2000 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
‘A man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life … Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it’ - John Keats
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