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William Shakespeare's The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint, Paperback / softback Book

William Shakespeare's The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint Paperback / softback

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The poem opens with a description of a young woman crying at the brink of a river, throwing torn-up letters, jewelry, and other mementos of love into the water.

An elderly gentleman approaches the woman and inquires about her sadness.

She reacts by telling him about a previous lover who chased her, seduced her, and then abandoned her.

She describes in detail how her lover enticed her with a speech. The 154 sonnets, all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man, 'Mr W.H.,' or a treacherous 'dark lady,' contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with timeless subjects like love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and Time's destruction.

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