书名：The Sonnets and Narrative Poems 莎士比亚诗歌集：十四行诗及叙事诗

作者：William Shakespeare 威廉•莎士比亚
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780451530899
商品尺寸：10.6 x2.8 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：449 （以实物为准）

莎士比亚十四行诗大约创作于1590年至1598年之间，其诗作的结构技巧和语言技巧都很高，几乎每首诗都有独立的审美价值。莎士比亚在运用这个诗体时，极为得心应手，主要表现为语汇丰富、用词洗练、比喻新颖、结构巧妙、音调铿锵悦耳。而其擅长的是后两行诗，往往构思奇诡，语出惊人，既是全诗点睛之作，又自成一联警语格言。
The Sonnets and Narrative Poems《莎士比亚诗歌集：十四行诗及叙事诗》为Signet Classics推出的英文原版诗歌集，收录莎士比亚全部154首十四行诗以及其他叙事诗，另附154首开头句索引表。本书由William Burto和Sylvan Barnet编辑，W. H. Auden作序，内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。

With an introduction by W.H. Auden and commentary from Helen Vendler, among others, this volume presents all of Shakeseare’s non-dramatic poetry in one place.

威廉·莎士比亚（1564-1616）是英国文艺复兴时期伟大的戏剧家和诗人，也是欧洲文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的集大成者，近代欧洲文学的奠基人之一。他共写有37部戏剧，154首14行诗，两首长诗和其他诗歌。代表作有四大悲剧：《哈姆雷特》《奥赛罗》《李尔王》《麦克白》。四大喜剧：《第十二夜》《仲夏夜之梦》《威尼斯商人》《皆大欢喜》。历史剧：《亨利四世》《亨利六世》《理查二世》等。
他是“英国戏剧之父”，本·琼斯称他为“时代的灵魂”，被称为“人类文学奥林匹斯山上的宙斯”。
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare’s vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. 

Shakespeare:Prefatory Remarks
Introduction
The Sonnets
Textual Note
Commentaries
  William Empson:They That Have Power
  Hallett Smith: from Elizabethan Poetry
  Winifred M. T. Nowottny:Formal Elements in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Sonnets 1-VI
  Helen Vendler:Shakespeare’s Sonnets:The Uses of Synecdoche

Indexto First Lines
Suggested References

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, 
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
Within his bending sickle’s compass come; 
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 

SONNET 154

The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire 
Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d;
And so the general of hot desire 
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by, 
Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual, 
Growing a bath and healthful remedy 
For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall,
   Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
   Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.