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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

A New Commentary
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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets delves into the enduring power and fascination of Shakespeare's poetic works, exploring their significance four centuries after their first publication. Don Paterson presents a lively and unconventional analysis that invites contemporary readers to discover fresh meanings and personal connections within these classic verses.
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'Paterson is simply one of the best living poets in the UK.' Observer

Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson: 'Paterson is simply one of the best living poets in the UK.' Jackie Kay, Observer

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Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations.

In this illuminating and often irreverent guide, Don Paterson offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571245055

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 April 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 402g

Pages: 528

About the Author

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He is the author of Nil Nil, God's Gift to Women - winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize - and Landing Light, which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Rain, his most recent collection, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2009, the same year that he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Find out more about Don Paterson at www.donpaterson.com

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