The sonnets
By: edited by G. Blakemore Evans ; with an introduction by Anthony Hecht.
Contributors: Evans, G. Blakemore 1912-; Hecht, Anthony, 1923-
Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Sonnets, English
Description: 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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index.

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