Mr Who He?
Stephen Orgel: Shakespeare’s Poems, 8 August 2002
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
by William Shakespeare, edited by Colin Burrow.
Oxford, 750 pp., £65, February 2002,9780198184317 Show More
by William Shakespeare, edited by Colin Burrow.
Oxford, 750 pp., £65, February 2002,
“... 1640, 24 years after Shakespeare’s death. That edition, however, involved wholesale revision. John Benson, the publisher, capitalising on the undiminished sales of Venus and Adonis, produced a volume of what looked to be not old-fashioned sonnets but new Shakespeare love poems. The transformation involved both format and erotics: many of the sonnets are ... ”