Sonete

by William Shakespeare

„Aş spune doar că, traducându-l, m-a sedus, l-am simţit aproape, l-am simţit «acum şi aici», cât se poate de viu. În măsura în care acest sentiment de fraternă prezenţă peste veacuri şi spaţii va însoţi cititorul în timpul lecturii, voi considera modestul meu efort un succes.” (Radu Ștefănescu)

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 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

[Sandra Deaconu · Rating 3 out of 5]

,,Frumosul e dator a se-nmulți,

I se cuvine rozei nemurirea..."


,,Nu-i nicăieri hambar

Atât de plin, să nu viseze grâu.

Și nici așa nebun un grădinar 

Să-mprăștie sămânța în pârâu."


,,Când nu-ți iubește inima, socoate

Că-n tine ai ucis o alta, poate."


,,În tine-i Timp, și vrea să mi te ia.

Te luptă, dar, să-i supraviețuiești

Cu arme noi."


,,Iubind, iubit, mă simt etern. E toată 

Averea mea, și nu-mi va fi luată."


,,Biet trupu-mi, ostenit de drumuri lungi,

Își află-n pat răsplată și odihnă;

Dar mintea se pornește chiar atunci, 

Căci ea e peregrinul fără tihnă."


,,Mai prețioasă frumusețea-mi pare

Când e-nsoțită de-adevărul pur..."


,,O știi; clepsidra-i regilor gropar.

Statuile, sub sabia lui Marte,

Umil bir săruta cândva țărâna,

Palate vor cădea, dar nu e moarte 

Să-ți ardă, vie, amintirea..."


,,De tot scârbit, în moarte-aș vrea să fug,

Să nu-i mai văd în zdrențe pe cei buni,

Sluțenia ornată cu belșug,

Credința compromisă de minciuni,

Pe harnic în batjocură plătit,

Fecioarele împinse la desfrâu,

Dezonorat pe cel desăvârșit,

Pe șchiop ținând zburdălnicia-n frâu,

Știința-nlănțuită de tiran,

Talentul explicat de idioți,

Apostrofat cel pur, ca grobian,

Și gardianul slugărind la hoți.

Sleit de toate astea aș pleca,

Dar lumii pradă las iubirea mea."


,,De piatra care-ți sunt, fii dezlegat.

Averea ce în mine-ai cheltuit

Întoarcă-se!"


,,Cândva și-o lamă 

De sabie se va toci. Ia seamă."


,,Mă-ntreb câți miei ar înșela un luo

De-ar ști privi în ochii lor mai blând!"


,,Rămâi al meu, aripă-ți sunt și drum."


,,Arăt puțin, dar nu iubesc puțin."


,,Ești legea mea, a lor îmi e nedreaptă,

Iar în afara ta, pedeapsa nu-i."


,,La tot ce-i vechi ne minunăm, crezand

Că ne-a fost dat. Suflarea ni-i grăbită."


,,Aș vrea să fiu sub mâna ta clavirul..."


,,Pe legea mea, tu poți trezi suspine

Și-n bolovani... Dar tac și nici nu-mi pasă...

Te văd o dată, și oftez de-o mie..."

[Emilia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was actually a very sentimental book 📚, I love it , it’s a little dark and passion, a combination that I really like it , it’s a book that you can read very easily, it’s a little dramatic, but something usual for a book like this . Love every poem that I read .