Everyone knows something of the sonnets of William Shakespeare -
even if they have never read Shakespeare. Allusions are all around
in song lyrics, TV shows, and news headlines. The 154 poems
Shakespeare wrote in sonnet form and published in 1609 are
referenced in so much popular culture, yet unless you are a student
of English literature you may not have ever tried reading them. Now
you don't have to. In this book, all the 154 original poems are
included and paired with a Twitter version. That's right, every one
of the sonnets has been reduced to a message of fewer than
140-characters. This is an experiment in making 400-year-old poetry
work in the age of social media, but it is also a continuation of
the sonnet traditions. Sonnets are very structured, short poems
anyway. Poets needed to follow strict rules to make a sonnet work,
to convey meaning within a set number of lines. In this book, the
sonnets have been reduced to individual tweets - but they still
retain the essence of each poem.
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