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"The complete sonnets and poems" was published by Oxford University Press in 2002 - Oxford, it has 750 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: The complete sonnets and poems
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 750
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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  • Publish Location: Oxford

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  • Pagination: ix, 750 p. :

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"The complete sonnets and poems" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Machine generated contents note: Introduction I
  • 2- Shakespeare the Poet I
  • 3- Venus and Adonis 6
  • 4- Publication and Date of Composition 6
  • 5- Dedication Io
  • 6- Literary Milieu I5
  • 7- Lucrece 40
  • 8- Publication and Date of Composition 40
  • 9- The Argument, Sources, and Politics 45
  • 10- Reading (in) Lucrece 55
  • 11- Rape and Consent 66
  • 12- The Passionate Pilgrim 74
  • 13- 'Let the bird of loudest lay' 82
  • 14- Shakespeare's Sonnets 91
  • 15- Publication and Circulation 91
  • 16- Dedication 98
  • 17- Date and Sequence I03
  • 18- Sources III
  • 19- Reading the Sonnets 118
  • 20- A Lover's Complaint 138
  • 21- Date and Attribution I38
  • 22- The Poem and its Context I40
  • 23- Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century 146
  • 24- 'Shall I die?' I48
  • 25- A Funeral Elegy 152
  • 26- Editorial Procedures 159
  • 27- Abbreviations and References I60
  • 28- VENUS AND ADONIS 17I
  • 29- LUCRECE 237
  • 30- THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM 339
  • 31- 'LET THE BIRD OF LOUDEST LAY' 371
  • 32- SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS 379
  • 33- A LOVER'S COMPLAINT 693
  • 34- APPENDIX 7
  • 35- Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the
  • 36- Seventeenth Century 7I9
  • 37- Index 729
  • 38- Index of First Lines 748.

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Despite the foundational place of Shakespeare's poems within his oeuvre, modern readers seldom engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This volume includes all of Shakespeare's sonnets and poems and explains how this state of affairs has arisen

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