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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... Glosses and Commentary Note on Reading the Text The Sonnets : With Textual Notes and Commentary 31 Appendix 1 : Editions Referenced 378 Appendix 2 : Emendations 380 Appendix 3 : Extant Copies of the 1609 Quarto 383 Bibliography 384 ...
... Glosses and Commentary Note on Reading the Text The Sonnets : With Textual Notes and Commentary 31 Appendix 1 : Editions Referenced 378 Appendix 2 : Emendations 380 Appendix 3 : Extant Copies of the 1609 Quarto 383 Bibliography 384 ...
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... glosses to their earliest sources . Where the gloss is noted by Rollins , the editor's name is in small capitals ( I have used the abbreviation NED for glosses from the Oxford English Dictionary when it is noted by Rollins , and OED oth ...
... glosses to their earliest sources . Where the gloss is noted by Rollins , the editor's name is in small capitals ( I have used the abbreviation NED for glosses from the Oxford English Dictionary when it is noted by Rollins , and OED oth ...
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... gloss is in roman . Multiple entries for a line are separated by a semicolon . I have restricted my commentary to ... glosses for their edition , I have attributed their glosses to the latter . References in glosses and commentary omit ...
... gloss is in roman . Multiple entries for a line are separated by a semicolon . I have restricted my commentary to ... glosses for their edition , I have attributed their glosses to the latter . References in glosses and commentary omit ...
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... gloss for " thy content " ( line 11 ) , following Pooler ( 1918 ) : " what you contain ( i.e. potentiality for parenthood ) . " Schmidt points out that this sense always takes the plural in Shakespeare and his straightforward " your ...
... gloss for " thy content " ( line 11 ) , following Pooler ( 1918 ) : " what you contain ( i.e. potentiality for parenthood ) . " Schmidt points out that this sense always takes the plural in Shakespeare and his straightforward " your ...
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... to modern English , though sufficiently familiar in Greek poetry and not rare in that of Latin . This feature of the Shakespearean style calls for constant attention in the sonnets . " He glosses the phrase as " THE SONNETS - 2 33.
... to modern English , though sufficiently familiar in Greek poetry and not rare in that of Latin . This feature of the Shakespearean style calls for constant attention in the sonnets . " He glosses the phrase as " THE SONNETS - 2 33.
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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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