Shakespeare's Sonnets With Three Hundred Years of Commentary

This book brings together the scholarship of dozens of the most brilliant commentators who have written about Shakespeare's Sonnets over the past three hundred years.

This edition adds the significant work done by modern editors to the most important commentary culled from the two variorum editions of the last century.

Atkins presents a straightforward edition without jargon with the simple goal of finding out how the poems work and how they may be interpreted.

He is the first to collate the modern texts so that differences among them can be fully appreciated and compared.

His discussion of meter and verse is more substantial than that of any other edition, adding particular dimension to this text.

Those coming to "The Sonnets" for the first time and those seeking a fresh look at an old friend will equally find this edition scholastically rigorous and a pleasure to read.

Carl D. Atkins is a practicing medical oncologist in New York.