The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's poetry / Michael Schoenfeldt.
2010
PR2984 .S36 2010 (Mapit)
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The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's poetry / Michael Schoenfeldt.
Author
Schoenfeldt, Michael Carl.
ISBN
9780521705073 (pbk.)
052170507X (pbk.)
9780521879415
0521879418
052170507X (pbk.)
9780521879415
0521879418
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
vii, 164 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PR2984 .S36 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.3
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Table of Contents
Shakespeare and English poetry
Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis'
Constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece'
Mysteries of the Sonnets: dedication, publication, sequence, characters
Time and mortality in the Sonnets
Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets
Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and Turtle'
Fantasies of Shakespearean authorship.
Shakespeare's banquet of sense: 'Venus and Adonis'
Constraint and complaint in 'Lucrece'
Mysteries of the Sonnets: dedication, publication, sequence, characters
Time and mortality in the Sonnets
Friendship and love, darkness and lust: desire in the Sonnets
Solitary and mutual flames: 'A Lover's Complaint' and 'The Phoenix and Turtle'
Fantasies of Shakespearean authorship.