# The Poems

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- Book: [The Poems](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/the-poems) ([The Poems.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/the-poems.md))
- Authors: [William Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare)
- Publisher: bantam_classics
- ISBN: 978-05-5321-309-6
- Pages: 528
- Published: 1988-01-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Poems Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic...