New Cambridge Shakespeare The Sonnets, (Hardcover)

from porian

Shakespeare is smooth! I'm going to have to use some of those lines on my next victim, ahem, girlfriend. What girl won't fall for lines like, "And in some perfumes is there more delight/ than in the breath that from my mistress reeks." Come on. You can't beat that.

from AbigailAdams26

Shakespeare's Sonnets, those 154 beautifully-worded, nimbly-constructed poems, are not works with which one is ever "done." This collection of gems is something to revisit from time to time, and cliched though it may be, it yields some new understanding at every reading. I cannot say that I "know...

from neverstopreading

Shakespeare's poems deserve to be read and studies, but they also deserve to be heard. Simon Callow has a wonderful voice, but I wish the number of the sonnets was announced as he read them.

from mjharris

De Vere at his absolute best, ripping off sugar'd specimens to amaze and delight his elizabethan court. "Would he had blotted 'a thousand..." but these are keepers!

from Mothwing

There are poems which are life rafts and serve much the same purpose, and this collection is full of them. They're a big part of who I am and where I am today.