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Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Year

2016

ISBN

9781501150333

Topic

Letteratura

Subtopic

Teatro

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

1

From fairest creatures we desire increase,	1
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,	2
But, as the riper should by time decease,	3
His tender heir might bear his memory.	4
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,	5
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,	6
Making a famine where abundance lies,	7
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.	8
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament	9
And only herald to the gaudy spring	10
Within thine own bud buriest thy content	11
And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.	12
Pity the world, or else this glutton be—	13
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.	14

2

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow	1
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,	2
Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,	3
Will be a tatt...

Cover
Editors’ Preface
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Reading Shakespeare’s Language: The Sonnets
Shakespeare’s Life
An Introduction to This Text
The Sonnets
Two Sonnets from The Passionate Pilgrim
Longer Notes
Textual Notes
Appendix of Intertextual Material
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Modern Perspective by Lynne Magnusson
Further Reading
Index of Illustrations
Index of First Lines
Commentary
Copyright