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Title: Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Virginia A. LaMar, Louis B. Wright ISBN: 0-613-02524-5 Publisher: Bt Bound Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.80 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great books come to those who wait
Comment: I am a great fan of Shakespeare, so when I bought this book what I was expecting wasn't what I saw. I saw the most intriguing sonnets probaly ever known to man. It wasn't all about love and fear. It was involving a great many things. It had all the human feelings, sadness, happieness, hate, love, curiosity, fear, pain, grief, stress, and you get the ideal. I don't want to give it away so if you seem interested read this wounderful book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Full of life
Comment: I read these sonnets two a day over the summer, and I wish there were more than 154 of them so I could keep going into the fall. I think I'll pick up "The Tempest" next.
The poetry in this volume is beautiful, equisite and full of passion. What makes Shakespeare worth reading is the way he lets the world into his lines. His metaphors appeal deliciously to the senses, like a beam of sunlight through a high window in the afternoon, or the smell of a new cut lawn in the spring. Shakespeare's writing is immortal, not because a conspiracy of teachers got together and decided it should be, but because it is full of life, and nothing that is full of life can really ever die.
If you're not used to reading Elizabthean English or are put off by the thought of Shakespeare, this is a good place to start. This edition helpfully "translates" each sonnet into modern English on a facing page along with definitions for the more troubling words. Even with the help, I still don't think Shakespeare is all that easy to read. But anything you do in this world that makes you feel more passionate about life is a pretty good thing. If you give Shakespeare some of your time, he's bound to pay you back with plenty of interest.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent edition
Comment: This edition of Shakespear's sonnets is all you need to read and understand the great Bard.
A very nice feature is the paraphrasing of the sonnets in contemporary English and a translation into ordinary language of the more difficult words.
The edition is a paperback small enough to be carried around to read during one's leisure.
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Title: The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen H. Vendler ISBN: 0674637127 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.44 |
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Title: Cliffs Notes on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Carl Senna ISBN: 0764586173 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Shakespeare's Sonnets by Stephen Booth, William Shakespeare ISBN: 0300085060 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot ISBN: 0486400611 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 08 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: John Donne: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by John Carey, John Donne ISBN: 019284041X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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