ReadingShakespeare'sSonnets:ANewCommentary

作者 Don Paterson著
出版社 Faber&Faber
出版时间 2012年4月
ISBN 9780571245055
定价 149.70

内容简介

Shakespeare'sSonnetsareasimportantandvitaltodayastheywerewhenfirstpublishedfourhundredyearsago.Perhapsnocollectionofversebeforeorsincehassocapturedtheimaginationofreadersandlovers;certainlynopoemhascomeundersuchintensecriticalscrutiny,andpresentedthereaderwithsuchabewilderingnumberofalternativeinterpretations.Inthisilluminatingandoftenirreverentguide,DonPatersonoffersafreshanddirectapproachtotheSonnets,askingwhattheycanstillmeantothetwenty-firstcenturyreader.Inaseriesoffascinatingandhighlyentertainingcommentariesplacedalongsidethepoemsthemselves,DonPatersondiscussesthemeaning,technique,hiddenstructureandfeverishnarrativeoftheSonnets,aswellasthedifficultiestheypresentforthemodernreader.Mostimportantly,however,helooksatwhattheytellusaboutWilliamShakespearethelover-andwhattheymightstilltellusaboutourselves.

作者简介

DonPatersonwasborninDundeein1963.HeistheauthorofNilNil(1993),God'sGifttoWomen(1997)-winnerofboththeT.S.EliotPrizeandtheGeoffreyFaberMemorialPrize-andLandingLight(2003),whichwonboththeT.S.EliotPrizeandtheWhitbreadPrizeforPoetry.Rain,hismostrecentcollection,wontheForwardPrizeforBestCollectionin2009,thesameyearthathewasawardedtheQueen'sGoldMedalforPoetry.

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