Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images

This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of

"Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of