Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of CommentaryThis is a collection of the scholarship of dozens of commentators who have written about Shakespeare's sonnets over the past 300 years. The text details how the poems work and how they may be interpreted. |
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... Abbott's ( 1870 ) much - quoted catalog of Elizabethan grammar . One may not always agree with Simpson's analyses , but his major tenet that differences in punctuation may be due to variations in accepted practice , rather than to cor ...
... Abbott's ( 1870 ) much - quoted catalog of Elizabethan grammar . One may not always agree with Simpson's analyses , but his major tenet that differences in punctuation may be due to variations in accepted practice , rather than to cor ...
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... Abbott ( 1870 , 260 ) : " The subjunctive ... was frequently used , not as now with would , should , & c . , but in a form identical with the indica- tive , where nothing but the context ( in the case of past tenses ) shows that it is ...
... Abbott ( 1870 , 260 ) : " The subjunctive ... was frequently used , not as now with would , should , & c . , but in a form identical with the indica- tive , where nothing but the context ( in the case of past tenses ) shows that it is ...
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... ( Abbott ) 14 murdrous shame shame- ful murder ( schmidt ) The opening argument of this sonnet is straightforward . Vendler suggests it may be read as a direct reply to an argument by the young man . I prefer to see it as pure sophistry ...
... ( Abbott ) 14 murdrous shame shame- ful murder ( schmidt ) The opening argument of this sonnet is straightforward . Vendler suggests it may be read as a direct reply to an argument by the young man . I prefer to see it as pure sophistry ...
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Contents
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Appendix 1 Editions Referenced | 378 |
Appendix 2 Emendations | 380 |
Appendix 3 Extant Copies of the 1609 Quarto | 383 |
Bibliography | 384 |
General Index to Introduction and Commentary | 393 |
Index of First Lines | 401 |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbott Alden beauty BEECHING beloved beloved's Booth notes Burto citation cites collated editors collated texts comma commentary to Sonnet compositor compositorial error couplet doth DOWDEN dropped letter Dunc Duncan-Jones Elizabethan emendations in collated end of line Evans explains eyes felfe feminine endings giue gloss Harbage hath haue heart iambic iambic pentameter iambs Ingram and Redpath Kerrigan line 11 line 9 liue loue MALONE meaning metaphor meter mistress modern moſt Onions pause phrase poem poet poet's POOLER praiſe punctuation Quarto quatrain reader Redpath note refers rest rhyme Rollins notes says scansion Schmidt second quatrain ſee seems sense Seymour-Smith Shakespeare ſhall ſhould Sonnet 18 Sonnet 29 Sonnet 33 Sonnets 40 speaker spondee ſtill substantive emendations suggests sweet syllable thee theme thine things third quatrain thoſe thought tone trochee trochee-iamb Tucker Vendler verse Willen and Reed Wils Wilson word WYNDHAM