The Complete Sonnets and Poems (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019281933X ISBN 13: 9780192819338

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Burrow is a University Senior Lecturer and a Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

Review:

`'it was a brilliant idea to produce the narrative poems and sonnets as a single edition....[Burrow's] book-length introduction [is] the best study there is of Shakespeare as a poet.'

'if the bookshelf had room for only one edition of Shakespeare's poems, Burrow's would be the one''
Stephen Orgel, London Review of Books

`'it is a superb edition, beautifully conceived, learned, intelligent, generous, judicious; but most impressive in the way it locates Shakespeare's poems in relation to each other and to his career.'
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Stephen Orgel

`'lucid, acute, to the point, and often amusing . . . a distinguished addition to a distinguished series.''
Henry Woudhuysen, Times Literary Supplement

`'Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as an editor are deeply impressive.''
Henry Woudhuysen, Times Literary Supplement

`the best edition of these (mostly) cracking poems'
Evening Standard

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 019281933X
• ISBN 13: 9780192819338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Burrow Colin