| ISBN |
9780199535798 |
| Name |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
| Uniform title |
Selections 2002 |
| Title |
The complete sonnets and poems edited by Colin Burrow. |
| Spine title |
Complete sonnets & poems |
| Published |
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| Description |
ix, 750 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Oxford Shakespeare |
| Notes |
Includes indexes. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction I -- Shakespeare the Poet I -- Venus and Adonis 6 -- Publication and Date of Composition 6 -- Dedication Io -- Literary Milieu I5 -- Lucrece 40 -- Publication and Date of Composition 40 -- The Argument, Sources, and Politics 45 -- Reading (in) Lucrece 55 -- Rape and Consent 66 -- The Passionate Pilgrim 74 -- 'Let the bird of loudest lay' 82 -- Shakespeare's Sonnets 91 -- Publication and Circulation 91 -- Dedication 98 -- Date and Sequence I03 -- Sources III -- Reading the Sonnets 118 -- A Lover's Complaint 138 -- Date and Attribution I38 -- The Poem and its Context I40 -- Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century 146 -- 'Shall I die?' I48 -- A Funeral Elegy 152 -- Editorial Procedures 159 -- Abbreviations and References I60 -- VENUS AND ADONIS 17I -- LUCRECE 237 -- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 339 -- 'LET THE BIRD OF LOUDEST LAY' 371 -- SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS 379 -- A LOVER'S COMPLAINT 693 -- APPENDIX 7 -- Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the -- Seventeenth Century 7I9 -- Index 729 -- Index of First Lines 748. |
| Summary |
"Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous vocabulary in which to explore love, praise of the beloved, sexual desire, and the power of rhetoric. That poem was so popular that most of Shakespeare's contemporaries thought of him as primarily a poet, rather than a playwright. Yet despite the power of Shakespeare's poems, and their foundational place within his oeuvre, modern readers have seldom been encouraged to engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This new edition explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it needs to be changed.". |
| "The volume contains the complete Sonnets and poems with a full commentary. An extensive and lively introduction explores Shakespeare's poetic development, and shows how the poems relate to each other and to his dramatic works."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subjects |
Shakespeare, William |
| Sonnets, English |
| Added Names |
Burrow, Colin |
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