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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Don Paterson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:528
Dimensions(mm): Height 195,Width 125
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571245055
ClassificationsDewey:821.3
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
NZ Release Date 13 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and often irreverent guide, Don Paterson offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader.

Author Biography

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize - and Landing Light, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Rain, his most recent collection, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2009, the same year that he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Find out more about Don Paterson at www.donpaterson.com