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Title: Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare ISBN: 0-486-26686-9 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good, portable edition
Comment: A colleague advised that I assign my college students this edition, and I am glad she did. Rather than reading the few anthologized works together with some handouts, students now own the entire set. For anyone not familiar with Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, this gives an affordable and portable version. For anyone familiar with the works, this book offers them in a beautifully light, compressed format that itself enhances rereading and re-interpretation. The book begins with a helpful one-page background on the sonnet form and on Shakespeare's collection, and ends with an also-helpful alphabetical list of first lines. The two-page glossary of terms at the end may be too little, too late, but the drawbacks of Dover's edition--its lack of notes and its use of roman numerals to number the poems--pale compared with the book's availability. As an enthusiast myself--someone who studied at the Shakespeare Institute, England, writing a 310-page thesis on the Bard--I feel grateful to be able to help others to such an inexpensive and pleasant way to own and explore Shakespeare's entire collection of sonnets. Because I could skim the poems in sequence so quickly and easily with this edition, the interrelationships among Sonnets 113, 114, 115, and the famous 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," for example, struck me in a new way as I reread them in this little book. A highly- recommended edition.
Rating: 1
Summary: This gives frustration rather than savings
Comment: Not one of America's best gifts to England :( - -
A couple bucks more for the Signet or Folger editions will help you so much more to appreciate our Bard. (or... if you're a Brit, the "New Penguin" edition is a great way to go).
Like Steve says, you'll get NO help (or love) from this *thrift* edition.
Rating: 2
Summary: Left me lost - till I got a better edition
Comment: My English major friends kept raving about the sonnets, so I finally decided to spend a buck to get this least expensive edition. It was kind of interesting. I could tell that Shakespeare was really intense about his issues - but I was lost as to why everybody was so crazy about them. I also did not like having paper that was so thin that my highlighting and notes went right through to ruin the other side of the page :(
Finally I spent another buck to get an (almost as inexpensive) edition (used) - the Signet edition edited by Burto. That helped a lot - with definitions of terms and hints about lots of secret relationships possibly there for those who would dig further. At last I'm starting to figure out why this guy is considered so awesome. To really get an appreciation of Shake's heart and mind, beginners like me really need more than just the poems.
Now I'm borrowing an English major's copy of Dr. Vendler's edition (Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets). It's pretty heady, so I'm just trying to read her introduction. Whew! I haven't tested out all her theories, but is so much incredible care and complexity going on behind the scenes in these poems - it's no wonder people are still boggled after 400 years.
Truly amazing - but unless you're an English major I wouldn't recommend bothering with this doubtful dollar deed. Getting a copy of the Signet or Folger Library editions will make beginners much happier.
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Title: Selected Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer ISBN: 0486282414 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 21 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Selected Poems by John Donne ISBN: 0486277887 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 23 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: 100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith ISBN: 0486285537 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 04 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake ISBN: 0486270513 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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Title: Essay on Man and Other Poems by Alexander Pope ISBN: 0486280535 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 16 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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