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Pop Sonnets

Author : Erik Didriksen

Publisher : Quirk Books

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 20,9 MB

Release : 2015-10-06

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1594748292

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A Goodreads Choice Award nominee The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others. An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike. “Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME





Love Songs and Sonnets

Author : Peter Washington

Publisher : Everyman's Library

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 28,96 MB

Release : 1997-01-28

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0679454659

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The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Love Songs and Sonnets includes Ronsard's famous sonnets to Helene, Dorothy Parker's sardonic reflections on men and Anne Bradstreet's touching poem "To my Husband." Shakespeare is here, of course, and Burnas, whose comparison of his love to a red, red rose remains one of the most celebrated of all poetic similes. This edition also includes a variety of delights by everyone from Thomas Wyatt to Langston Hughes, from Aphra Behn to John Updike. With a Foreword by Peter Washington, and an index of first lines.



Shakespeare's Songbook

Author : Ross W. Duffin

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 536 pages

File Size : 44,63 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780393058895

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Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.



Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher : Random House

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 17,91 MB

Release : 2018-11-08

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0753553147

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'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "translated" Shakespeare’s sonnets and he has done so with an insolent, loveable charm ... A dazzling success’ – Stephen Fry Rediscover the greatest love poetry ever written Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? You’re more delightful, always shining strong; High winds blow hard on flowering buds in May, And summer never seems to last that long... Shakespeare’s sonnets are some of the nation’s favourite lines of verse, but the Elizabethan language can make it difficult to really understand them. Many guides offer to clarify the meaning, but lose the magic of the words by explaining them away. James Anthony has done something boldly different. He has rewritten the whole series of poems as sonnets using modern language, while retaining the rhythm and rhyme patterns that gives them such power. In doing so he breathes new life into the original poems and opens them up for a modern readership, demystifying Shakespeare’s eternal poetry with provocative new translations and delightful new lines. Presented as an attractive book with the original sonnets facing their new translations, this is a stunning collection of beautiful love poems, made new.



Shakespeare

Author : Anthony Burgess

Publisher : Random House

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 43,96 MB

Release : 2014-04-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1473512409

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Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespeare's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.



The Complete Sonnets and Poems

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher :

Page : 768 pages

File Size : 32,12 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780198184317

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'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.



Technically Alive

Author : J. Archer

Publisher : Springer

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 44,16 MB

Release : 2012-12-05

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137330562

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Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets.



Shakespeare's Songs And Sonnets

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher : Wentworth Press

Page : 110 pages

File Size : 29,59 MB

Release : 2019-03-24

Category : History

ISBN : 9781011115938

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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

Author : William Shakespeare

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 47,34 MB

Release : 2020-09-10

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1108490395

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A beautiful edition of Shakespeare's sonnets in chronological order, including passages from his plays, freshly introduced and paraphrased.