The Poems

by William Shakespeare

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A collection of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Shakespeare, William	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Alexander, Peter	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Bevington, David	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Maxwell, J. C.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rylands, George	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Wilson, John Dover	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The complete works of William Shakespeare : reprinted from the First Folio (volume 13 of 13) by William Shakespeare

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The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare

The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare

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The Amazon product descriptions currently below refer to slightly different editions of Shakespeare's Poems. The edition in the Arden Shakespeare series - ISBN 0416 278701 (and other numbers in later reprints) - is that first published by Methuen, London, in 1960.

Contents
• Introduction - The poems; the text.
• Venus and Adonis
• Lucrece
• The Passionate Pilgrim
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• Appendices - selections from: Golding's 1567 translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis; Chaucer's Legende of Good Women; Painter's Pallace of Pleasure; and Ovid's Fasti.

This edition has been reprinted in paper back many times in several different jacket styles to match the changing look of the Arden Shakespeare series.

There is a companion volume of "The Sonnets" in the same series.

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