Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: March 3, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780671669263
Subjects: Poetry; Literature: Classics; Classics; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Fiction / Classics; Sonnets, English
First sentence: Later in the poem, the contrast between love and lust, the burden of Adonis' rebuttal of Venus' plea, reminds one of the same theme that appears from time to time in the plays, as early as Romeo and Juliet and later in Measure for Measure:
Table of contents: title: Venus and Adonis --; title: The rape of Lucrece --; title: "The phoenix and the turtle" --; title: Verses from The passionate pilgrim --; title: "A lover's complaint" --; title: The sonnets.