# Sonnets

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- Book: [Sonnets](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/sonnets) ([Sonnets.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/sonnets.md))
- Authors: [William Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-823-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2023-01-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery - why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? - each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive. INTRODUCED BY ANDREW McMILLAN 'This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love' Don Paterson, Guardian