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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks - Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Never before imprinted. (although sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim). The quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.

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The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress; and pun on the poet's name. The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid.

The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four-line stanzas, and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter. This is also the meter used extensively in Shakespeare's plays.

The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets. Often, the beginning of the third quatrain marks the volta ("turn"), or the line in which the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany.

There are a few exceptions: Sonnets 99, 126, and 145. Number 99 has fifteen lines. Number 126 consists of six couplets, and two blank lines marked with italic brackets; 145 is in iambic tetrameters, not pentameters. There is one other variation on the standard structure, found for example in sonnet 29. The normal rhyme scheme is changed by repeating the b of quatrain one in quatrain three, where the f should be.

Shakespeare's sonnets can be seen as a prototype, or even the beginning, of a new kind of "modern" love poetry. During the eighteenth century, the sonnets' reputation in England was relatively low; as late as 1805, The Critical Review could still credit John Milton with the perfection of the English sonnet. As part of the renewed interest in Shakespeare's original work that accompanied Romanticism, the sonnets rose steadily in reputation during the nineteenth century.

The sonnets have great cross-cultural importance and influence. There is no major written language into which the sonnets have not been translated. (Summary adapted from wiki)

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Chapter listing and length:

01 Sonnets 1-10
00:08:59
02 Sonnets 11-20
00:09:06
03 Sonnets 21-30
00:08:52
04 Sonnets 31-40
00:09:29
05 Sonnets 41-50
00:09:14
06 Sonnets 51-60
00:08:47
07 Sonnets 61-70
00:08:46
08 Sonnets 71-80
00:08:53
09 Sonnets 81-90
00:09:20
10 Sonnets 91-100
00:09:35
11 Sonnets 101-110
00:09:08
12 Sonnets 111-120
00:09:07
13 Sonnets 121-130
00:09:10
14 Sonnets 131-140
00:09:14
15 Sonnets 141-154
00:12:27

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[mikegoldgerg]

2 hours and 20 mins of sonnets! Amazing! I spent all day writing my very first sonnet.

[norrispulliam]

there are a few writers who can describe extremely complex ideas in extremely complex ways. but none but shakespeare can desribe extremely complex concepts and ideas with absolutely clear and simplistic clarity.

[kathleankeesler]

This is heaven - Much appreciation from this granny & my faithful companion, Lola the canine. We two are camping out, on DNR land, Western Lake Washington. 8/06/2022

[lanivue]

Dark Lady's Sonnets:
#129 1:56:42
#130 1:57:37
#138 2:05:03
#144 2:10:50
#146 2:12:28
#147 2:13:24
#152 2:17:30

[gentlebreeze]

the narrator did a fantastic job thank you kind sir for helping to bring Shakespeare to mine ears

[Brandiwell]

This is such a lovely recording. It comes close to the one I memorized when I was younger. Wonderful voice and very sweet intonation!

[TeenStoryTime]

Honestly both book and narrator are calming- almost hypnotic- to listen to.... Thanks for the upload!

[lanivue]

Sonnets to the fair youth
#1: 0:32
#12 10:25
#15 12:57
#18 15:27
#29 25:04
#30 25:55
#55 49:32
#60 53:32
#73 1:05:28
#116 1:45:03

[ThePermacultureStudent]

Struck by how clearly Shakespeare valued family, aging well, legacy, pragmatism/acceptance, order/nature, and humility

[andycrandall]

As i lay in wake for slumber
The audio golden tounge
Shall confound dreams
But release sleep to homage another way...

[MMW]

The sounds of these Sonnets remind me of Stratford-upon-Avon. Thank you for sharing. Nice reading indeed.

[anki]

I love this! The sonnets are wonderful and very well read!

[killlvcid]

I loved Shakespeare so much! Thank you so much for the full sonnets!

[maryphillipps]

Thankyou Chris Hughes excellent reading I enjoyed this .

[radumihaisalagean]

Love whitout words.... Love beyond the poetry

[j.dunlop]

I repeatly expressed to my students, that there were few new concepts in literature, express in literature after this wild hounding wrenching, wretch in our time? "Till our ending doom!" Yes, he was a babbling obsessed, babbler amongst stories, and ideas? "Gift's comfort, for thy sake, of vanity!"

[weileash]

... so many of these are "have kids cause you're gonna get old and ugly and forgotten." Excellent reading though, clear and with great rhythme.

[Mayah]

Thank you so much for this excellent and warm reading.

[lorenabastos]

Thank you for that. It’s amazing to hear. I’m loving 🥰

[kajalbatra]

am speachless ! its stunning... !
i just want to live in these lines! marvellous !