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Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
Introduction
When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous.
The Sonnets
The 154 sonnets — all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous dark lady — contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time.
A Lover's Complaint
Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
