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SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM THE SONNETS

The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy  betrayal  melancholy.
They ache with unfulfilled longing  and  for many  they are the most complete and moving
meditations on love ever written.  Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library  a series of
stunning  clothbound  pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These
beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an
afterword by Peter Harness.   The Sonnets of William Shakespeare  a cycle of 154 linked poems
first published in 1609  are reproduced in full in this Macmillan Collector's Library edition.
Filled with ideas about love  beauty and mortality  the sonnets are written in the same
beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare's plays. The first
126 sonnets are addressed to a young man known as the 'Fair Youth'  while others are directed
at a 'Rival Poet'  and a 'Dark Lady'.

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