The Sonnets: Poems of Love
 

The Sonnets: Poems of Love

by William Shakespeare

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing to literati and laymen alike. Surrounded by mystery, these poems of devotion and jealousy, of a young courtier and a Dark Lady, have been the subject of endless speculation. They are highly mystical and at the same time highly honest; as... (more)

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Who can sonnet like Shakespeare could sonnet? If your heart rate doesn't go up a few notches reading these poems, you may very well be more haddock than man.

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  • Mirko B

    mirko b said:

    That's so true, there's something so modern and witty about these verses of his, you almost feel like reading a contemporary poet. I bet he'd be published in New Yorker if he were alive today!

    posted Tuesday, November 27 2007
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