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Summary: Perfect!
Review: The perfect pocket edition of Mr. Shakespeare's sonnets!Of course, if you are wondering what they mean, and all that, you will have to get yourself familiar with Rowse's edition of the sonnets: A. L. Rowse: Shakespeare's Sonnets. But once you know who the principal characters are -- Henry Wriothesley, the young Earl of Southampton, Christopher Marlowe, and Emilia Lanier -- plus young Will Shakespeare himself -- then the Dover will do fine for you and yours. After all, this is exactly the book you could have bought on its first day of publication, four centuries ago!! :-) ttfn jimmy
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Summary: What Bill wrote
Review: The sonnets of Mr Shakespeare are wonderful literary exercises. They are probably a bit mannered, and they may well have been written with his left hand...idly recording his love life and his autobiography while his mind raced on to greater things. But there should be no Doubt at all, that -- even though the paper may be [inexpensive], and the type face be uneven -- and there be no NOTES there at all... still, one can read: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Where yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang,
Upon those boughs where late the sweet birds sang
Bare ruined choirs... Oh, ..., I have misquoted the sonnet. You Will have to
go read it yourself! :-) In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset sinketh in the west.... O yes, send out for footnotes!
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Summary: Cannot recommend a book more highly!
Review: This book could hardly be of higher quality, and it could hardly be more inexpensive. Free sample: XXV.
Let those who are in favour with their stars,
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most. Great prince's favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye;
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled: Then happy I, that love and am belov'd
Where I may not remove, or be remov'd. Highest recommendation!
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Summary: A Perfect Topping for Every Bedside Table - Classic!
Review: Who can possibly go wrong with Shakespeare? In my mind, there is nothing better than curling up with a classic right before you go to bed. Shakespeare's sonnets inspire you to think, dream, and love. A must for every writer, the sonnets are an excellent primer on structure, metaphor and word play. This book is a steal at 99 cents!
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