內容簡介
Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and
meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two
parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom
the poet has an obsessive love and the second chronicles his love
for the notorious 'Dark Lady'. In addition to the sonnets, this
volume includes Shakespeare's two lengthy narrative poems on
classical themes, 'The Rape of Lucrece' which looks forward to the
dark imagery of Macbeth, and 'Venus and Adonis' which mixes
ribaldry and tragedy in unique Shakespearean manner. 'The Phoenix
and the Turtle' is a beautiful metaphysical and allegorical short
elegy, and takes its place with Shakespeare's better-known
poetry.