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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... Onions's A Shakespeare Glossary ( 1911 ) . I have selected glosses from these sources , those editors collated in ... Onions to the 1911 edition ; otherwise the year is given ( I usually refer the reader to the revised 1986 edition of ...
... Onions's A Shakespeare Glossary ( 1911 ) . I have selected glosses from these sources , those editors collated in ... Onions to the 1911 edition ; otherwise the year is given ( I usually refer the reader to the revised 1986 edition of ...
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... Onions , and Schmidt indicate that the citation may be found under the listing for the word ( s ) in question . Citations within quotations from other authors are standardized to modern notation . I have made occasional refer- ence to ...
... Onions , and Schmidt indicate that the citation may be found under the listing for the word ( s ) in question . Citations within quotations from other authors are standardized to modern notation . I have made occasional refer- ence to ...
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... ( Onions ) ; fairely in beauty ( Harbage ) 6 confounds destroys ( schmidt ) 9 summers distillation perfumes made from flowers ( dowden ) 11 were bereft would be taken away ( Harbage ) 12 Nor it ... what it was neither it , nor the ...
... ( Onions ) ; fairely in beauty ( Harbage ) 6 confounds destroys ( schmidt ) 9 summers distillation perfumes made from flowers ( dowden ) 11 were bereft would be taken away ( Harbage ) 12 Nor it ... what it was neither it , nor the ...
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... ( Onions ) 12 tract course ( Schmidt ) 13 out - going in thy noon passing your highest pitch ( schmidt ) This sonnet takes an entirely different approach from its predecessors . The youth's beauty is not even mentioned . Here we have an ...
... ( Onions ) 12 tract course ( Schmidt ) 13 out - going in thy noon passing your highest pitch ( schmidt ) This sonnet takes an entirely different approach from its predecessors . The youth's beauty is not even mentioned . Here we have an ...
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... ( Onions ) 7 times gen- erations of man ( schmidt ) 9 for store to breed from ( herford ) 10 feature- lesse ill - featured ( Harbage ) 11 Looke whom whomever ( NED ) 13 seale stamp from which impressions are made ( Harbage ) Ingram and ...
... ( Onions ) 7 times gen- erations of man ( schmidt ) 9 for store to breed from ( herford ) 10 feature- lesse ill - featured ( Harbage ) 11 Looke whom whomever ( NED ) 13 seale stamp from which impressions are made ( Harbage ) Ingram and ...
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