The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Vendler
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Children, Sex or sexuality, Literature, Marriage, Betrayal, Poetry or poets, Time, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Aesthetics
Helen Vendler, a chaired professor at Harvard University, is widely regarded as the foremost critic of contemporary poetry in the English language, dealing perceptively and boldly with the works of Seamus Heaney, A. R. Ammons, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and many more. She also has written distinguished studies of John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Walt Whitman, and Wallace Stevens. This book, nine years in the making, may well be her masterpiece.
The history of William Shakespeare’s sonnets begins with the 1609 publication titled Shakespeares...
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