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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Page 11
... appears to have been primarily as a guarantee of his poetic sin- cerity : the value of his poetry would be minimized if all the feelings he so beau- tifully expressed were mere imaginings . Yet the need for a real object of love did not ...
... appears to have been primarily as a guarantee of his poetic sin- cerity : the value of his poetry would be minimized if all the feelings he so beau- tifully expressed were mere imaginings . Yet the need for a real object of love did not ...
Page 12
... appears to have been broken up into small associations called academies , which met gen- erally to listen to a new sonnet , or to a lecture on some old one . Many pub- lished commentaries on Petrarch appear to be notes of similar ...
... appears to have been broken up into small associations called academies , which met gen- erally to listen to a new sonnet , or to a lecture on some old one . Many pub- lished commentaries on Petrarch appear to be notes of similar ...
Page 13
... appear unrelated to the rest of the sequence ( 77 , 122 , 145 , 153 , and 154 ) . Finally , there are those sonnets whose sentiments seem out of place with prior sonnets , particularly Sonnets 53 and 105 ( see Auden's discussion in ...
... appear unrelated to the rest of the sequence ( 77 , 122 , 145 , 153 , and 154 ) . Finally , there are those sonnets whose sentiments seem out of place with prior sonnets , particularly Sonnets 53 and 105 ( see Auden's discussion in ...
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... appear in the Quarto should be under- taken with as much caution as any other emendation . Those who feel it is essential to modernize the text for the unsuspecting reader necessarily , as Percy Simpson ( 1911 , 12 ) says , " sacrifice ...
... appear in the Quarto should be under- taken with as much caution as any other emendation . Those who feel it is essential to modernize the text for the unsuspecting reader necessarily , as Percy Simpson ( 1911 , 12 ) says , " sacrifice ...
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... appear to have led to the omission of several punctuation marks . Thus , Son- net 28 has no punctuation after the last word , " stronger , " which is turned up to the preceding line because it would not fit on the last line : the ...
... appear to have led to the omission of several punctuation marks . Thus , Son- net 28 has no punctuation after the last word , " stronger , " which is turned up to the preceding line because it would not fit on the last line : the ...
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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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