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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint - Penguin Clothbound Classics

William Shakespeare (Author)

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • 272 Page / Published 2009-10-01
  • Category: Fiction , Poetry, Drama & Literary Criticism , Shakespeare in April
  • ISBN: 9780141192574
  • Language: English
  • Format: HB
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the....

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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.