Intended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to ShakespearesSonnets."His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." Thats how ShakespearesSonnetswere described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poetwith a penchant for irreverent fungetting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were published that typically told the story of thwarted love. The same topics are repeated a chaste and beautiful lady, a lovesick poet dreaming only of his beloved, sunk into despair by her cruelty (cruel only because she decides to remain chaste). ShakespearesSonnetsare like this, but with a twistadding a love triangle that turning convention upside down. Working out all the possibilities of this intriguing story as the sonnets progress is all part of the fun.Atkins invites you to imagine that you are among the friends our poet has allowed to see his new sonnets. Youll read the poems and the discussion of each one, as we try to figure out the story. See what it might have been like to read ShakespearesSonnets"among his private friends."With glosses of difficult words and phrases and an explanation of each poem, this book is as carefully edited as the acclaimed variorum edition published by Atkins in 2007,Shakespeares Sonnets With Three Hundred Years of Commentary. It has the same sensitive readings of verse that made his variorum unique. (Atkins has made a complete metrical analysis of all...
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Intended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to ShakespearesSonnets."His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." Thats how ShakespearesSonnetswere described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poetwith a penchant for irreverent fungetting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were published that typically told the story of thwarted love. The same topics are repeated a chaste and beautiful lady, a lovesick poet dreaming only of his beloved, sunk into despair by her cruelty (cruel only because she decides to remain chaste). ShakespearesSonnetsare like this, but with a twistadding a love triangle that turning convention upside down. Working out all the possibilities of this intriguing story as the sonnets progress is all part of the fun.Atkins invites you to imagine that you are among the friends our poet has allowed to see his new sonnets. Youll read the poems and the discussion of each one, as we try to figure out the story. See what it might have been like to read ShakespearesSonnets"among his private friends."With glosses of difficult words and phrases and an explanation of each poem, this book is as carefully edited as the acclaimed variorum edition published by Atkins in 2007,Shakespeares Sonnets With Three Hundred Years of Commentary. It has the same sensitive readings of verse that made his variorum unique. (Atkins has made a complete metrical analysis of all...
Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: Small Latin Press; Classification: DC; Weight: 706 g; Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 25
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