Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

A New Commentary

Don Paterson

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Faber & Faber
01 June 2012

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Poetry by individual poets

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.

By: Don Paterson
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 402g
ISBN: 9780571245055
ISBN 10: 0571245056
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
Recommended Age: From 0 to 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.donpaterson.com/

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil (1993), God's Gift to Women (1997) - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize - and Landing Light (2003), 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.