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 12
... The Sonnets . If we assume that they were written in sequence and that they relate a true history , we find Sonnets 37 and 38 interrupting six sonnets about a liaison , Sonnet 81 in the middle of 12 SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.
... The Sonnets . If we assume that they were written in sequence and that they relate a true history , we find Sonnets 37 and 38 interrupting six sonnets about a liaison , Sonnet 81 in the middle of 12 SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.
Page 14
... assuming specific reference to any individual or event . This has the advantage of avoiding distracting excur- sions into unsupportable conjectures about the author of The Sonnets that have no value in understanding or appreciating them ...
... assuming specific reference to any individual or event . This has the advantage of avoiding distracting excur- sions into unsupportable conjectures about the author of The Sonnets that have no value in understanding or appreciating them ...
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... assume that , at least some of the time , the compositor either set or corrected the punctuation after filling the composing stick or after having set an entire page . This would allow for the same sort of confusion that leads to ...
... assume that , at least some of the time , the compositor either set or corrected the punctuation after filling the composing stick or after having set an entire page . This would allow for the same sort of confusion that leads to ...
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... assuming that the compositor accidentally added a punctuation mark where none was indicated . Only where ... assume that the italicization and capitalization of the Quarto reflect intended nuances , and should not be altered ...
... assuming that the compositor accidentally added a punctuation mark where none was indicated . Only where ... assume that the italicization and capitalization of the Quarto reflect intended nuances , and should not be altered ...
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... assume that this mistake would have been caught early and prevented by Shakespeare himself , thus explain- ing its absence from the plays . The longer poems appear to have been much more carefully set than The Sonnets , possibly even ...
... assume that this mistake would have been caught early and prevented by Shakespeare himself , thus explain- ing its absence from the plays . The longer poems appear to have been much more carefully set than The Sonnets , possibly even ...
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