Vintage Classics: Sonnets

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‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom’

Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare’s sonnets are the best ever written.

But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love.

Some of them are written to a young man, some of them to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery – why did Shakespeare write them, what was his sexuality? – each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive.

Includes exclusive content: In the ‘Backstory’ you can find a short, handy, funny guide to everything you might want to know about Shakespeare and his sonnets.

‘This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love’ Don Paterson, Guardian

Reviews

“The great master who knew everything…an unspeakable source of delight” – Charles Dickens

“Every age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst… Shakespeare haunts our language” – Independent

“Shakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time” – Peter Ackroyd

“Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third” – T.S. Eliot

“Every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself” – Alexander Pope