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. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 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. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. 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. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnets invention, and the Sicilian School of poets who surrounded him then spread the form to the mainland. Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems. A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo.
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