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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... meaning , or that the placement of a sonnet at a particular point in a series makes it more significant . Even random numbers can be made to resemble a pattern , and any number of choices can be made to suggest the importance of one ...
... meaning , or that the placement of a sonnet at a particular point in a series makes it more significant . Even random numbers can be made to resemble a pattern , and any number of choices can be made to suggest the importance of one ...
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... meaning . Where only the punctuation is considered but the preceding word has an archaic or British form , I have retained the Quarto spelling when indicating the emended punctuation , ignoring the spelling modernization or Americaniza ...
... meaning . Where only the punctuation is considered but the preceding word has an archaic or British form , I have retained the Quarto spelling when indicating the emended punctuation , ignoring the spelling modernization or Americaniza ...
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... meaning implied by the Quarto point- ing . Blake ( 2002 , 22-30 ) , who gives a modern and intelligent but brief sur- vey of Shakespearean punctuation , provides numerous examples of such mis- takes by editors of Shakespeare's work . As ...
... meaning implied by the Quarto point- ing . Blake ( 2002 , 22-30 ) , who gives a modern and intelligent but brief sur- vey of Shakespearean punctuation , provides numerous examples of such mis- takes by editors of Shakespeare's work . As ...
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... meaning . It is most important not to imagine that there is an invariable set of rules that can be used to interpret Shakespearean punctuation . A comma in one sonnet may indicate a longer pause than a semicolon does in another ...
... meaning . It is most important not to imagine that there is an invariable set of rules that can be used to interpret Shakespearean punctuation . A comma in one sonnet may indicate a longer pause than a semicolon does in another ...
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... meaning cannot be fully discerned . These two sonnets were meant to be read together as one poem ( as noted by many editors ) . There are eight other sonnet pairs in the sequence ( 15/16 , 27/28 , 44/45 , 50/51 , 67/68 , 73/74 , 89/90 ...
... meaning cannot be fully discerned . These two sonnets were meant to be read together as one poem ( as noted by many editors ) . There are eight other sonnet pairs in the sequence ( 15/16 , 27/28 , 44/45 , 50/51 , 67/68 , 73/74 , 89/90 ...
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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