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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... Evans 1994 , xvi ) , who has all the attributes of a goddess , yet treats her admirer with disdain ; a lovesick poet , tossed on the tempestuous sea of love , unable to sleep , dreaming only of his lady - love , sunk to the depths of ...
... Evans 1994 , xvi ) , who has all the attributes of a goddess , yet treats her admirer with disdain ; a lovesick poet , tossed on the tempestuous sea of love , unable to sleep , dreaming only of his lady - love , sunk to the depths of ...
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... Evans recognizes , even if compositorial , the Quarto punctuation " represents , except when it is patently in error , a contemporary reader's ... feeling for the sense , syntax , and rhetori- cal interrelation of the verse lines , a ...
... Evans recognizes , even if compositorial , the Quarto punctuation " represents , except when it is patently in error , a contemporary reader's ... feeling for the sense , syntax , and rhetori- cal interrelation of the verse lines , a ...
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... Evans ( 1996 ) ; other authors with the same surname are always cited with their initials . Comments of earlier editors noted by Rollins are attributed with their surnames in small capitals . These comments will almost always be found ...
... Evans ( 1996 ) ; other authors with the same surname are always cited with their initials . Comments of earlier editors noted by Rollins are attributed with their surnames in small capitals . These comments will almost always be found ...
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... Evans compares Romeo and Juliet 1.1.217-18 [ TLN 225-26 ] : " For beauty sterv'd [ starved ] with her severity , / Cuts beauty off from all posteritie . " Rollins claims that Percy Simpson ( 1911 , 24-26 ) " vainly argues " that the ...
... Evans compares Romeo and Juliet 1.1.217-18 [ TLN 225-26 ] : " For beauty sterv'd [ starved ] with her severity , / Cuts beauty off from all posteritie . " Rollins claims that Percy Simpson ( 1911 , 24-26 ) " vainly argues " that the ...
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... Evans , Vend . where ; Dunc . where . The rest . Double sonnet with Sonnet 6. 2 gaze object to be gazed upon ( hazlitt ) 4 unfaire rob of beauty ( Onions ) ; fairely in beauty ( Harbage ) 6 confounds destroys ( schmidt ) 9 summers ...
... Evans , Vend . where ; Dunc . where . The rest . Double sonnet with Sonnet 6. 2 gaze object to be gazed upon ( hazlitt ) 4 unfaire rob of beauty ( Onions ) ; fairely in beauty ( Harbage ) 6 confounds destroys ( schmidt ) 9 summers ...
Contents
31 | |
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