William Shakespeare's Sonnets Paperback – 22 May 2024

Just a few fingerprints on the beach but it's fine

Tô gostando muito. Recomendo ter um bom dicionário em mãos.

I love Folger Shakespeare library editions. This book does not disappoint. Student friendly, this book can introduce even an individual from a non literature background to Shakespearean sonnets.As far as the condition of the book was concerned, it arrived in impeccable shape and what's more right at time. Couldn't have asked for more!

This is clearly a milestone-work of scholarship on the sonnets and has duly taken its place among the most referenced works. The Renaissance context is painstakingly identified for the modern reader and the critical analysis of language is remarkable.Booth’s incredible research means he is able to explore semantic and syntactic possibilities as he explores interpretations of the sonnets.I’ve spent the last few weeks in the summer sunshine reading the sonnets in the editions of Booth, Helen Vendler and Don Paterson. I read a sonnet and see what I can work out for myself. I then look to Paterson for a reader-poet’s fresh, funny, perceptive take on the poem. He’s brilliant when dispensing with cultural reverence and calling it as he sees and feels it. Then I turn to Booth for a guide to language in its historical context. Readings come into sharper focus and make greater sense when he connects language with proverb, scripture, the demotic etc. He anatomises the possibilities of grammatical form and meaning such that the reader is able try out the suggestions. Finally, Vendler brings an amazing perceptiveness to the form and structure of poetic language. Her insights are like revelations as she present gifts of seeing to her readers.Sometimes I change the order of reading just to see what happens. It’s like setting up a debate with the three commentaries. They argue with each other and I listen in.The whole experience has been more exciting than reading a thriller, more enlightening than any lecture.

Es zahlt sich wirklich aus die CDs zu kaufen wenn man an der englischen Aussprache sich arbeiten möchte. Der Text wird sehr deutlich und englisch ausgesprochen. Die Qualität des Youtube Videos ist mit diesem überhaupt nicht vergleichbar