Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Analytic Commentary

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This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems but often subtly interlinked in thematic imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they autobiographical? What is the nature of the love strongly expressed between the poet the youth and the Dark Lady? Can they apart from the poet be identified? Who is the rival poet? When were the Sonnets written and in what order? What were the circumstances surrounding their publication?