A review by tumblyhome_caroline
Sonnets and Other Poems by William Shakespeare

5.0

I have been slowly reading the sonnets starting with one and going through to 154, which I read last night.

I really loved some, liked some and admit I really did not like some too . Sometimes it seemed too big a project to read them all but then an amazing sonnet would come along and I was all enthused again. Reading them all took months.

Admittedly some of the sonnets were just too difficult to understand (and I really tried ).
Reading these is not a quick process, but taking time with them often uncovers gold. I used an excellent Helen Vendler book (The art of Shakespeares Sonnets) to help and also listened to @sirpatstew reading them aloud. If I got stuck the website Poemanalysis.com was really helpful. The RSC edition of the book of sonnets is excellent with good notes too.
It became a reading habit, picking up my tatty, annotated to death, scuffed and battered edition…a habit that I will really miss. So I will slowly read them again.

I ended up with quite a few favourite’s. I loved 73 &74, 29, 138, 129, 126, 109 and 113