Sonnets and Poems (Innbundet (stive permer))

William Shakespeare was born in 1564, in Stratford upon Avon, and died in 1616. This edition of sonnets and poems includes the narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece which established Shakespeare's reputation when they appeared in 1593-4. The short poem, 'The Phoenix and the Turtle' appeared alongside the work of others in Love's Martyr, published in 1601. The Sonnets were published with A Lover's Complaint in 1609.

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