02228nam a22003378a 4500 CR9780511781186 UkCbUP 20180107143412.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511781186 (ebook) 9780521879415 (hardback) 9780521705073 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR2984 .S36 2010 821/.3 22 Schoenfeldt, Michael, author. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry / [electronic resource] Michael Schoenfeldt. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Introductions to Literature Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the achievement of Shakespeare as a poet, providing students with ways of understanding and enjoying his remarkable poems. It honours the aesthetic and intellectual complexity of the poems without making them seem unapproachably complicated, outlining their exquisite pleasures and absorbing enigmas. Schoenfeldt suggests that today's readers are better able to analyze aspects of the poems that were formerly ignored or the source of scandal - the articulation of a fervent same-sex love, for example, or the incipient racism inherent in a hierarchy of light and dark. By engaging closely with Shakespeare's major poems - 'Venus and Adonis', 'Lucrece', 'The Phoenix and the Turtle', the Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' - the Introduction demonstrates how much these extraordinary poems still have to say to us. Print version: 9780521879415 Cambridge Introductions to Literature. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781186 Cambridge Books Online 236515 236515