{"product_id":"the-art-of-shakespeares-sonnets-9780674637115","title":"The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen Vendler  widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry  here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeares 154 sonnets  Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems  pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines  but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect. The commentaries--presented alongside the original and modernized texts--offer fresh perspectives on the individual poems  and  taken together  provide a full picture of Shakespeares techniques as a working poet. With the help of Vendlers acute eye  we gain an appreciation of \"Shakespeares elated variety of invention  his ironic capacity  his astonishing refinement of technique  and  above all  the reach of his skeptical imaginative intent.\" Vendlers understanding of the sonnets informs her readings on an accompanying compact disk  which is bound with the book. This recorded presentation of a selection of the poems  in giving aural form to Shakespeares words  heightens our awareness of voice in lyric  and adds the dimension of sound to poems too often registered merely as written words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279611420725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674637119","price":36.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674637115.jpg?v=1780603523","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-shakespeares-sonnets-9780674637115","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}