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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... comma and the full stop ? To come to close quarters with this curious problem : we may concede that a careless or ignorant printer might leave out stops since the omission perhaps saved him trouble ; but would he insert them ...
... comma and the full stop ? To come to close quarters with this curious problem : we may concede that a careless or ignorant printer might leave out stops since the omission perhaps saved him trouble ; but would he insert them ...
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... comma , after " danger , " is particularly foreign to the modern reader because the required by the sense is less than we would usually bother to indicate with a comma . But there is a pause there nonetheless . It forces an emphasis on ...
... comma , after " danger , " is particularly foreign to the modern reader because the required by the sense is less than we would usually bother to indicate with a comma . But there is a pause there nonetheless . It forces an emphasis on ...
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... comma were not in adjacent bins in com- positors ' cases ( Gaskell 1972 , 37 ) , one could easily imagine the compositor confusing these two during distribution , leading to foul - case errors , i.e. , where a character finds its way ...
... comma were not in adjacent bins in com- positors ' cases ( Gaskell 1972 , 37 ) , one could easily imagine the compositor confusing these two during distribution , leading to foul - case errors , i.e. , where a character finds its way ...
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... comma at the end of line 13 , an open bracket ( with no preceding space ) to mark the turned - up word , and then had no more room for the final punc- tuation . The same problem results in the loss of a comma after the last word ...
... comma at the end of line 13 , an open bracket ( with no preceding space ) to mark the turned - up word , and then had no more room for the final punc- tuation . The same problem results in the loss of a comma after the last word ...
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... commas may or may not sepa- rate phrases and clauses , periods may or may not indicate the end of a sen- tence , run ... comma indicates the shortest pause , followed by the semicolon , the colon , and then the period indicating the full ...
... commas may or may not sepa- rate phrases and clauses , periods may or may not indicate the end of a sen- tence , run ... comma indicates the shortest pause , followed by the semicolon , the colon , and then the period indicating the full ...
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