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Author Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl.

Title The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's poetry / Michael Schoenfeldt
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description vii, 164 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge introductions to literature
Cambridge introductions to literature.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Shakespeare and English poetry; 2. Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis'; 3. 'My tongue shall utter all': constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece'; 4. Mysteries of the Sonnets; 5. 'All in war with time': progeny, poetry, and entropy in the Sonnets; 6. Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets; 7. Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle'; 8. Passionate pilgrims: fantasies of Shakespearean authorship; Further reading
Summary "Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding and enjoying his remarkable poems. It honours the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, outlining their exquisite pleasures and absorbing enigmas. Schoenfeldt suggests that today's readers are better able to analyze aspects of the poems that were formerly ignored or the source of scandal - the articulation of a fervent same-sex love, for example, or the incipient racism inherent in a hierarchy of light and dark. By engaging closely with Shakespeare's major poems - 'Venus and Adonis', 'Lucrece', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' - the Introduction demonstrates how much these extraordinary poems still have to say to us"--
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-156) and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Poetic works.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.
Narrative poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Sonnets, English -- History and criticism.
LC no. 2010029489
ISBN 9780521705073 (paperback)
9780521879415 (hbk.)
Other Titles Shakespeare's poetry