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A review by libraryofpeculiar
Complete Poems by William Shakespeare
3.0
Not blown away as I thought I'd be. I love Shakespeare's plays so I was quite happy to read his poetry..
But I found long poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece" rather boring. I haven't even finished "The Rape of Lucrece", I skipped it and went to sonnets. Sonnets were quite good. I really liked some sonnets while some were meh. But all in all I liked sonnets better than the longer poems. The only longer poem I liked was "A lover's complaint", that one was quite fun to read.
But the biggest problem for me was the language and way it was written. I had a hard time understanding since English isn't my first language so I had to concentrate real hard to understand what's going on in some of the poems. Wish I had this book in Croatian rather than English, maybe I'd enjoy it more.
But I found long poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece" rather boring. I haven't even finished "The Rape of Lucrece", I skipped it and went to sonnets. Sonnets were quite good. I really liked some sonnets while some were meh. But all in all I liked sonnets better than the longer poems. The only longer poem I liked was "A lover's complaint", that one was quite fun to read.
But the biggest problem for me was the language and way it was written. I had a hard time understanding since English isn't my first language so I had to concentrate real hard to understand what's going on in some of the poems. Wish I had this book in Croatian rather than English, maybe I'd enjoy it more.