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Review title: Both very enjoyable and highly useful
Product review: A very useful book. It was an excellent idea to include a CD-Rom with Helen Vendler reading a good number of the sonnets. Hearing them with the book in hand made for an absolutely wonderful afternoon. The introduction provides interesting ideas - among them, that the sonnets are meant to be "said", not "overheard", as Eliot says of lyric poetry, which makes the CD-Rom all the more valuable. It also provides a bird's eye view, and brief but authoritative critical appraisal, of scholarly publications on the subject - no mean task. However, I felt the need of more reference to the baroque context in which these poems were produced. For instance, thinking in the antithetical mode is not an individual trait: one remembers Donne, or Quevedo, or Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and realizes that many of the forms of construction, and of the images, etc., belong not to personal choice or preference but to collective baroque practice throughout Europe and (even) America.
