Great Sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions)

Editorial Review:

Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Longfellow, Yeats, Frost, Poe, etc.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Great intro and survey of sonnets:

I needed a little reference with sonnet examples.
This fit the bill, and had some savory treats as well.
I am a bit time-greedy with my poetry reading, and a sonnet
is a fantastic way to get some of the best Shakespeare,
Shelley, Longfellow, Hardy, Frost, etc. distilled down
to a minute, even reading slowly.
It's great to flick open to a page
and see some masterful language on a time budget.
If you have little time, or haven't read poetry
for a while,... more info

Great Bathtub Reading:

Bertie Wooster can sing the latest Broadway melody while he scrub brushes his back, but I prefer reading poetry aloud in my acoustically-correct, ceramic-tiled bath. And I've discovered the perfect book for it: Dover's Thrift Edition of Great Sonnets.
It is from this small volume that I've learned that the world is charged with the grandeur of God ("God's Grandeur," Hopkins), that lust in action is a waste of shame ("Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame," Shakespeare), and that listening to my... more info

The sonnet - yes:

This is yet another great value produced by Dover publication. For a small amount of money one receives ' treasures' that can help sustain one throughout one's lifetime. There are ' immortal poems' in this collection including many of the greatest sonnets ever written , sonnets by Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, the greatest masters of the form.
I myself came to know many of these sonnets in popular editions by other publishers, editions which have commentary these 'Dover... more info

a fine collection of familiar sonnets:

A fine collection of sonnets, including many if not most of the most familiar ones. Eight from Shakespeare, four from E. Browning, four from Frost, four from Hopkins, four from Longfellow. For me at least, a more appealing collection than another I recently purchased.

Similar Products:

Lyric Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Keats (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jonathan Swift (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord... (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Essay on Man and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alexander Pope (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Metaphysical Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Frost (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) from W. W. Norton & Company (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

• Buying & Selling Homes
• General

• General AAS
• Investments

• Mortgages
• Sales

Site © 2005-2008 Atarim, LLC. Hosting by The Hosting Team.