"Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of

An enlightening, celebratory anthology of the most classic and enduring of forms edited by two major poets.