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Title: The Sonnets and Narrative Poems by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN: 0-679-41741-9 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 15 December, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How do I love thee?
Comment: Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems are something that every well-versed romantic should have a copy of and this well priced and durable volume is great for reading and re-reading and marking up your favorite passages to memorize later.
Rating: 5
Summary: Erotic fair. No wonder we didn't read this in high school
Comment: Having read "A MidSummer's Night Dream" I knew that the bard could pen page after page of love-filled, alluring rhyming verse. But if that's what you fancy then you must read the sonnets and the long lyric poems contained in this Everyman's edition.
I'm trying to commit sonnet #18 to memory. It famously starts "shall I compare these to a summer's day". These are among the greatest pick up lines of the 16th century.
The sonnets are beautiful in their appreciation of love and the feminie form. Shakespeare must have been exactly as he was potrayed in the film "Shakespeare in Love": always on the prowl for females and continually in search of a muse. (Interestingly the translation of "muse" in the 15th and 16th century is "poet.)
Finally, the poem Venus and Adonis is more of this romantic banter. This poem is red hot, much more erotic than anything you could read in Maxim or Cosmopolitan. Consider this: "Being so enraged (aroused), desire doth lender her force Courageously to pluck him from his horse...She red and hot as coals of glowing fire, He red for shame, but frosty in desire...Tis but a kiss I beg--what art thou coy."
This is titalliting, stimulating fair. ("Fair" means pretty in old English.) Who can read this without blushing. No wonder we didn't read this in high school.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect
Comment: This is the perfect way to read Shakespeare. I also highly recommend the other volumes of Shakespeare available from the Everyman's Library.
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Title: Tragedies : Volume 1 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN: 0679417427 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 03 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Histories : Volume 1 by William Shakespeare ISBN: 0679433120 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 04 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Comedies : Volume 1 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN: 0679443630 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 10 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Romances by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN: 067945487X Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 07 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Comedies, Vol. 2 (Everyman's Library) by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN: 0679447202 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 16 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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