The Poems

Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

Paperback, 326 pages

English language

Published June 12, 2006 by Cambridge University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-521-67162-0
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Contains: Lover's Complaint Passionate Pilgrim Phoenix and the Turtle Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis

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Review of 'The Complete Sonnets and Poems' on 'Goodreads'

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Excluding the two major narrative poems:

Snooze. It's not bad, just boring. These days only two kinds of people genuinely like these; those who can cope with Love and the Moon poetry, which, thematically, has been losing ground on my attention since I became an adult and those who are obsessed with Shakespeare's life, biographical and/or psychological, who were satirised up to the eyeballs by Oscar Wilde. I don't have that obsession.

The best part is the epitaphs, which are at least witty.

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  • Shakespeare plays, texts
  • Shakespeare
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Literary Criticism
  • Reference
  • Poetry
  • Literary Collections / General
  • Lucretia