A note on the text -- Inner order -- Desirable development -- Eternal lines -- Tender churl -- Master-mistress -- Outcast state -- Thy advocate -- Usurpation -- The strength of laws -- Your substance -- Fearful meditations -- His great verse -- O, what a mansion -- This most balmy time -- Ruined love -- Hugely politic -- Past cure -- Conclusion -- The complete sonnets of William Shakespeare.;Shakespeare's sonnets constitute the greatest single work of lyric poetry in English, as passionate and daring as any love poems we may ever encounter, and yet they are often misunderstood. [This book] reveals an underlying structure encompassing the 154 poems that illuminates the entire work, and provides a guide for first-time readers and connoisseurs alike [that inspires a new understanding of this complex masterpiece.] --Page 4 of cover.