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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... Duncan - Jones , © 1977 , Thomson Learning , reproduced by permission of Thomson Learning . Passages from The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets , edited by Helen Vendler , Cambridge , Mass .: The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press ...
... Duncan - Jones , © 1977 , Thomson Learning , reproduced by permission of Thomson Learning . Passages from The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets , edited by Helen Vendler , Cambridge , Mass .: The Bellknap Press of Harvard University Press ...
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... Duncan - Jones notes that the word " how " in line 11 seems redundant . She goes on to suggest that this " underlines the searching nature of the question . " I prefer to see it as Shakespearean carelessness . Here , we have a change in ...
... Duncan - Jones notes that the word " how " in line 11 seems redundant . She goes on to suggest that this " underlines the searching nature of the question . " I prefer to see it as Shakespearean carelessness . Here , we have a change in ...
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... Duncan - Jones notes that " Some such word as ' survive ' is implied " at the end of 5.12 . The sense , however , is quite clear , even if the grammar is not . She also suggests that " ragged " ( 6.1 ) represents a transferred epithet ...
... Duncan - Jones notes that " Some such word as ' survive ' is implied " at the end of 5.12 . The sense , however , is quite clear , even if the grammar is not . She also suggests that " ragged " ( 6.1 ) represents a transferred epithet ...
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... Duncan - Jones suggests that Shakespeare could easily have written , " love of mine ... thee or thine , " but this isn't quite the same thing , is it ? I am quite content with Shake- speare's choice and find the simple reading perfectly ...
... Duncan - Jones suggests that Shakespeare could easily have written , " love of mine ... thee or thine , " but this isn't quite the same thing , is it ? I am quite content with Shake- speare's choice and find the simple reading perfectly ...
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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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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