Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford ShakespeareThe ^AComplete Sonnets and Poems (Oxford World's Classics)

Half way through and love it.

I have yet to read through the entire book but from what I have read Shakespeare had a brilliant mind. I love his work. This book is just his sonnets and poems no plays here. If you have any desire to read or start reading Shakespeare this is the book to do it in. Its very relaxing. And it gives you alot to think about.

Unlike most Shakespeare editions, the notes in this are actually useful.

This review isn’t about the content of the writing because it’s Shakespeare.The quality of the binding and legibility of the print are excellent for the price. Those were my concerns before I bought it because some compendiums fall apart or have print too small. Not here.The intro, the footnotes and other poems are well organized and an added bonus. I chose this version because I read in a review that each sonnet is on its own page (to view in a glance without turning the page) and this is true.

This is a good scholarly edition and would probably be very useful for anyone interested in writing on Shakespeare or who is doing research on him. But for someone like me, who just wanted to read the poems, the massive introduction (over a hundred pages) and the huge number of footnotes (they take up over half the page, typically) produces a bulky volume that makes reading less enjoyable. This is a thorough edition, so at least you get all of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poems, and I have not (so far) found a comparable edition that includes his narrative poems (editions of his sonnets are plentiful, but it’s harder to find print versions of Venus and Adonis and Lucrece).Thorough edition, though it makes reading a bit of a chore. I’d rather use a slimmer, more compact edition, if I could find one.

a nice edition to acquire to get into shakespeare

All the information in this book was very well organized and I did not expect it to have so much information about each poem and sonnets. They information in this book gave me way more and above what I was looking for.

This was a gift to our son. He can't say enough about the collection in this book! He loves it!!!