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"Not marble nor the gilded monuments""Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme""But you shall shine more bright in these contents""Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time." --From "Sonnet 55" Shakespeare's sonnets are the most beloved and famous in the English language--and no home library should be without a copy. For students, this is the perfect little book to use for studying, while devotees of poetry will want it right on the night table, there to enjoy at any time. To make finding a favorite poem easier, there's an index of first lines. No library descriptions found. |
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The only problem I had with this selection is this: Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. This book included 105. It makes me wonder why they didn't just go the whole hog and include them all. Poetry selections should, in my opinion, be a sort of 'greatest hits' giving a taste of a certain poet's vast body of work (like the other books in this Phoenix series do). When the body of work is as small as Shakespeare's sonnets, an abridged selection seems unnecessary. A collection of great poems, but the completist in me is restless that I haven't yet read all of Shakespeare's poetry.
Personal favourites include: the sonnets 17, 18, 27, 29, 34, 54, 61, 79, 106, 116, 129 and 130. ( )