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 14
... effect , or whether the printing house somehow misplaced some sonnets , or whether some were never intended for the sequence , we shall never know . It suffices , I think , to read The Sonnets as they were originally presented and allow ...
... effect , or whether the printing house somehow misplaced some sonnets , or whether some were never intended for the sequence , we shall never know . It suffices , I think , to read The Sonnets as they were originally presented and allow ...
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... effect on the reading of The Sonnets , and have generally ignored changes in capitalization and italicization , these being numerous and mostly subjective . I have similarly passed over modernizations of punctuation , but have included ...
... effect on the reading of The Sonnets , and have generally ignored changes in capitalization and italicization , these being numerous and mostly subjective . I have similarly passed over modernizations of punctuation , but have included ...
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... effect of the emendations I propose , an emended text may be accessed online at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press website , at http://inside.fdu.edu/fdupress , by selecting the title Shakespeare's Sonnets : With Three Hundred ...
... effect of the emendations I propose , an emended text may be accessed online at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press website , at http://inside.fdu.edu/fdupress , by selecting the title Shakespeare's Sonnets : With Three Hundred ...
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... effect frequently . Here , it works quite well . Rollins notes that the final line is the first one made up of ten monosyllables " and such lines make up approximately one - tenth of the total number . Evidently ... [ Shakespeare ] ...
... effect frequently . Here , it works quite well . Rollins notes that the final line is the first one made up of ten monosyllables " and such lines make up approximately one - tenth of the total number . Evidently ... [ Shakespeare ] ...
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... effect from the tonal changes in Sonnet 2 , which varied back and forth . Here , the sudden change at the end gives the couplet a more resounding emphasis . Adams ( 1944 ) notes the playful bawdiness of the second quatrain : " Since the ...
... effect from the tonal changes in Sonnet 2 , which varied back and forth . Here , the sudden change at the end gives the couplet a more resounding emphasis . Adams ( 1944 ) notes the playful bawdiness of the second quatrain : " Since the ...
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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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