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The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's poetry /

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052170507x

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0521879418

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9780521705073

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9780521879415

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b528074

Title Proper

The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's poetry /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael Schoenfeldt

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vii, 164 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Cambridge introductions to literature

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-156) and index

Text of Note

Shakespeare and English poetry -- Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis' -- Constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece' -- Mysteries of the Sonnets: dedication, publication, sequence, characters -- Time and mortality in the Sonnets -- Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets -- Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and Turtle' -- Fantasies of Shakespearean authorship

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Text of Note

"Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding and enjoying his remarkable poems. It honours the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, outlining their exquisite pleasures and absorbing enigmas. Schoenfeldt suggests that today's readers are better able to analyze aspects of the poems that were formerly ignored or the source of scandal - the articulation of a fervent same-sex love, for example, or the incipient racism inherent in a hierarchy of light and dark. By engaging closely with Shakespeare's major poems - 'Venus and Adonis', 'Lucrece', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' - the Introduction demonstrates how much these extraordinary poems still have to say to us"--

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Poetic works

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616., Sonnets

Narrative poetry, English-- History and criticism

Sonnets, English-- History and criticism

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Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl

Date of Transaction

20110330151704.0

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