This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.

• General Introduction: Shakespeare the Poet ; Introduction to Venus and Adonis ; Introduction to Lucrece ; Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim ; Introduction to 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' ; Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets ; Introduction to A Lover's Complaint ; Introduction to Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century ; Editorial Procedures ; Venus and Adonis ; Lucrece ; The Passionate Pilgrim ; 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' ; Shakespeare's Sonnets ; A Lover's Complaint ; Appendix: Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century ; Index ; Index of First Lines

This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.

• General Introduction: Shakespeare the Poet ; Introduction to Venus and Adonis ; Introduction to Lucrece ; Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim ; Introduction to 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' ; Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets ; Introduction to A Lover's Complaint ; Introduction to Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century ; Editorial Procedures ; Venus and Adonis ; Lucrece ; The Passionate Pilgrim ; 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' ; Shakespeare's Sonnets ; A Lover's Complaint ; Appendix: Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century ; Index ; Index of First Lines

This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.

• General Introduction: Shakespeare the Poet ; Introduction to Venus and Adonis ; Introduction to Lucrece ; Introduction to The Passionate Pilgrim ; Introduction to 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' ; Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets ; Introduction to A Lover's Complaint ; Introduction to Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century ; Editorial Procedures ; Venus and Adonis ; Lucrece ; The Passionate Pilgrim ; 'Let the Bird of Loudest Lay' ; Shakespeare's Sonnets ; A Lover's Complaint ; Appendix: Poems Attributed to Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century ; Index ; Index of First Lines