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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... couplet , building on the previous three quat- rains to make a final point . Shakespeare attempts this effect frequently . Here , it works quite well . Rollins notes that the final line is the first one made up of ten monosyllables ...
... couplet , building on the previous three quat- rains to make a final point . Shakespeare attempts this effect frequently . Here , it works quite well . Rollins notes that the final line is the first one made up of ten monosyllables ...
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... couplet ends with antithesis : new is better than old , warm better than cold . These shifts in tone are much more prominent than in Sonnet 1. They give a strong sense that the speaker of The Sonnets has moods , and give depth and ...
... couplet ends with antithesis : new is better than old , warm better than cold . These shifts in tone are much more prominent than in Sonnet 1. They give a strong sense that the speaker of The Sonnets has moods , and give depth and ...
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... couplet in Sonnet 3 : " the sonnet falls logically into an exhortation to breed ( in the quat- rains ) followed by the couplet - result — phrased almost as a death - curse — if the advice is not followed . " The quatrains certainly have ...
... couplet in Sonnet 3 : " the sonnet falls logically into an exhortation to breed ( in the quat- rains ) followed by the couplet - result — phrased almost as a death - curse — if the advice is not followed . " The quatrains certainly have ...
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... couplet . One can almost feel the first twelve lines following the sun , rising to its apex in lines 7 and 8 , falling to its lowly tract at the end . Rollins cites VoiGT ( 1908 , 6-7 ) : " With wonderful clearness Shakespeare describes ...
... couplet . One can almost feel the first twelve lines following the sun , rising to its apex in lines 7 and 8 , falling to its lowly tract at the end . Rollins cites VoiGT ( 1908 , 6-7 ) : " With wonderful clearness Shakespeare describes ...
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... - trochee ( " Resembling strong youth In his middle age " ) . The remainder of the sonnet is a relentless stream of regular iambs straight through the moralizing couplet . 8 Vfick to heare , why hear'st thou musick fadly THE SONNETS - 7 43.
... - trochee ( " Resembling strong youth In his middle age " ) . The remainder of the sonnet is a relentless stream of regular iambs straight through the moralizing couplet . 8 Vfick to heare , why hear'st thou musick fadly THE SONNETS - 7 43.
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