Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.
