Book Known As Q

By Robert Giroux

Book Overview

First circulated in manuscript in the 1590s, Shakespeare's sonnets-perhaps the greatest poems in the English language-were not published in book form until 1609. But their publication met with almost... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689112602
• ISBN13: 9780689112607
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Scribner
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good book, contains facsimile of first 1609 printing.

Giroux presents a well reasoned argument about the nature of what knowledge of the poet's life is available from the sonnets. It is both informative and pleasing to read.