6/21/2023 0 Comments The Sonnets by Warwick Collins![]() ![]() The Sonnets wears its scholarship lightly and its love of Shakespeare and poetry proudly. He interweaves 30 sonnets into the text in seamless fashion. Collins has crafted a clever, witty and enjoyable novel from fragments of history. Not then, the obvious setting for poetic genius but within the politics (both State and sexual) of this lofty household Will finds lots to inspire his pen, and a few attractive distractions too. : The Sonnets: A Novel (9780007306190) by Collins, Warwick and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The controversial earl is under pressure from his family and those close to the royal court to settle down but he is far too busy drinking, carousing and cavorting with his motley band of acquaintances to pay attention. ![]() The young Will Shakespeare is living under the patronage of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In this wonderfully entertaining novel acclaimed author Warwick Collins imagines the circumstances that inspired 30 of the Bard's most popular sonnets. ![]() No one knows for sure precisely when and where Shakespeare wrote his sonnets or, more intriguingly, who he wrote them for. It is set in Elizabethan England from 1592-1594 a two-year period where entertainment and arts were at their low point due to the devastating outbreak of the plague in London. Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems. The Sonnets Warwick Collins 2008 Book Review This book is written from the perspective of William Shakespeare. ![]()
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