{"product_id":"sonnets","title":"Sonnets","description":"\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eFirst published in 1609, William Shakespeare’s \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e brings together 154 poems that explore love, desire, beauty, jealousy and the relentless passage of time. Written in the tightly wrought fourteen-line form of the English sonnet, the poems move between intimate declarations, playful argument and meditations on mortality, often turning upon a final couplet that transforms everything that came before it. Many address a beautiful young man, while a later group centres on a mysterious woman traditionally known as the Dark Lady; the identities of these figures, and the circumstances behind the poems, remain subjects of enduring debate. Beneath their apparent intimacy lies a subtle drama of devotion and betrayal, idealisation and disillusionment, in which love is as frequently a source of uncertainty as of consolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eComposed across Shakespeare’s career and first published together in 1609, during the Jacobean period, the \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e stand among the defining achievements of English lyric poetry. Shakespeare takes the inherited conventions of Renaissance love poetry and makes them startlingly personal, exposing the contradictions of desire while contemplating whether language can preserve beauty against time and death. Their wit, psychological complexity and musical precision have shaped the English literary imagination for more than four centuries, influencing generations of poets and readers. Read individually or as a sequence, these poems offer not a simple confession but a shifting, enigmatic portrait of human attachment in all its tenderness, vanity and vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e— William Shakespeare, \u003cem\u003eSonnets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn Sonnets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Few collections of poems—indeed, few literary works in general—intrigue, challenge, tantalize, and reward as do Shakespeare’s Sonnets.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e— Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, Folger Shakespeare Library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63989095924042,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/sonnets","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}