Part of Penguin's beautiful Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these refined and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colorful, tactile cloth with gold foil stamping on the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems was first published in 1609, he had already written most of the great works that made him famous. The 154 sonnets—almost all addressed to a handsome youth or a treacherous 'dark lady'—contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poems ever written, dealing with eternal themes such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wrought by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published alongside the sonnets, in which a young woman is heard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless captivating man.