Shakespeare's Sonnets
Subtitle: Critical Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1988.)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780815323655
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Drama; English; Literary Criticism; England; Shakespeare, William,; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Shakespeare, William; 1564-1616; 1564-1616.; History and criticism; Sonnets; Sonnets, English
First sentence: A common practice in many accounts of the reception history of Shakespeare's Sonnets is to complain, often in tones of comic despair, about the crushing volume of criticism, the mountain of essays, dissertations, chapters, books, poems, plays, and novels on these most problematic of poems-a mountain any surveyor must attempt to climb.