Sonnets - The Original Classic Edition

A colleague advised that I assign my college students this edition, and I am glad she did. Rather than reading the few anthologized works together with some handouts, students now own the entire set.

For anyone not familiar with Shakespeares 154 sonnets, this gives an affordable and portable version. For anyone familiar with the works, this book offers them in a beautifully light, compressed format that itself enhances rereading and re-interpretation.

As an enthusiast myself–someone who studied at the Shakespeare Institute, England, writing a 310-page thesis on the Bard–I feel grateful to be able to help others to such an inexpensive and pleasant way to own and explore Shakespeares entire collection of sonnets. Because I could skim the poems in sequence so quickly and easily with this edition, the interrelationships among Sonnets 113, 114, 115, and the famous 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, for example, struck me in a new way as I reread them in this book.

A highly- recommended edition.