This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they autobiographical? What is the nature of the 'love', strongly expressed, between the 'poet', the 'youth' and the 'Dark Lady'? Can they, apart from the poet, be identified? Who is the 'rival poet'? When were the Sonnets written and in what order? What were the circumstances surrounding their publication?
- ISBN10 0671722875
- ISBN13 9780671722876
- Publish Date 1 February 2004 (first published 1 August 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English