The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare

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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

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Editor/introduction - John Kerrigan

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 29 Apr 1999

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When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

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‘A man’s life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life … Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it’ - John Keats