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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... ( Dowden ) 14 could cold ( sp . ) ... The first two quatrains now address the beautiful youth in harsher tones . They remind him that he will someday be besieged by age , his proud livery becoming tattered weeds , his eyes deep sunken ...
... ( Dowden ) 14 could cold ( sp . ) ... The first two quatrains now address the beautiful youth in harsher tones . They remind him that he will someday be besieged by age , his proud livery becoming tattered weeds , his eyes deep sunken ...
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... ( dowden ) 11 were bereft would be taken away ( Harbage ) 12 Nor it ... what it was neither it , nor the remebrance of it , being left ( Tucker ) 14 Leese lose ( NED ) 6 Hen let not winters wragged hand deface , TH THE SONNETS - 5 39.
... ( dowden ) 11 were bereft would be taken away ( Harbage ) 12 Nor it ... what it was neither it , nor the remebrance of it , being left ( Tucker ) 14 Leese lose ( NED ) 6 Hen let not winters wragged hand deface , TH THE SONNETS - 5 39.
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... Dowden ( 1881 ) suspects an allusion to the proverbial expression " one is no number , " comparing Romeo and Juliet 1.2.32-33 ( see commentary to Sonnet 136 , where this sense is more obvious ) . He suggests the sense " that since many ...
... Dowden ( 1881 ) suspects an allusion to the proverbial expression " one is no number , " comparing Romeo and Juliet 1.2.32-33 ( see commentary to Sonnet 136 , where this sense is more obvious ) . He suggests the sense " that since many ...
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... Dowden ( 1881 ) : " The '. Which to repaire should be thy chiefe defire : O change thy thought , that I may change my minde , Shall hate be fairer log'd then gentle loue ? Be as thy presence is gracious and kind , Or to thy felfe at ...
... Dowden ( 1881 ) : " The '. Which to repaire should be thy chiefe defire : O change thy thought , that I may change my minde , Shall hate be fairer log'd then gentle loue ? Be as thy presence is gracious and kind , Or to thy felfe at ...
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With Three Hundred Years of Commentary William Shakespeare Carl D. Atkins. Wilson cites Dowden ( 1881 ) : " The ' murderous shame ' of 9.14 reappears in the ' For shame ' and ' murderous hate ' of 10. " This is somewhat different from ...
With Three Hundred Years of Commentary William Shakespeare Carl D. Atkins. Wilson cites Dowden ( 1881 ) : " The ' murderous shame ' of 9.14 reappears in the ' For shame ' and ' murderous hate ' of 10. " This is somewhat different from ...
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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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