Sonetti d'amore

by William Shakespeare

I sonetti shakespeariani includono alcuni tra i più alti versi d’amore mai composti.
Continui e costanti cambi d’umore conducono il Lettore dalla dolcezza più tenera, propria della musicalità di taluni versi, alla crudezza più angosciante di certe scelte tematiche e linguistiche.
Impossibile restare immuni al fascino di un linguaggio in cui ogni parola comporta e scatena un vortice infinito e piacevole di emozioni contrarie e allo stesso tempo complementari, aprendoci ogni volta a una visione multiforme ma unitaria degli elementi e degli aspetti cantati.
Nel loro insieme, i 154 componimenti – qui riproposti nella versione integrale con testo inglese a fronte – pubblicati per la prima volta nel 1609 dall’editore Thomas Thorpe senza il consenso e la revisione dell’autore, si interrogano dunque sulla fugacità del tempo, sulle contraddizioni del mondo, sulla natura e sulle pene dell’amore dando voce a una ricchissima gamma di stati d’animo, sentimenti, le risposte sono mille e nessuna, in un gioco di ribaltamenti, impennate e rinvii che è la cifra di questi versi immortali.

Genres: Poetry

635 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2016

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

Reviews

[Amaranta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tu sei per la mia mente come il cibo per la vita,
Come le piogge di primavera sono per la terra;
E per goderti in pace combatto la stessa guerra
Che conduce un avaro per accumular ricchezza.

Prima orgoglioso di possedere e subito dopo,
Roso dal dubbio che il tempo gli scippi il tesoro;
Prima voglioso di restare solo con te,
poi orgoglioso che il mondo veda il mio piacere.

Talvolta sazio di banchettare del tuo sguardo,
subito dopo affamato di una tua occhiata;
non possiedo né perseguo alcun piacere
se non ciò che ho da te o da te posso avere.

Così ogni giorno soffro di fame e sazietà,
di tutto ghiotto e d’ogni cosa privo.