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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... person address , the poets writing as if they were chronicling their own stories . Although Petrarch took pains to insist that the Laura whom he celebrated in his poems was a real person ( Roche 1989 , 29 ) , this appears to have been ...
... person address , the poets writing as if they were chronicling their own stories . Although Petrarch took pains to insist that the Laura whom he celebrated in his poems was a real person ( Roche 1989 , 29 ) , this appears to have been ...
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... person beloved for beauty , a new person , to replace the original one in its decay " was noted by Richard Simpson ( 1868 , 19 ) to have been expressed in Plato's Symposium . Lee observes ( 1905 , 19 n . ) : " Nothing was commoner in ...
... person beloved for beauty , a new person , to replace the original one in its decay " was noted by Richard Simpson ( 1868 , 19 ) to have been expressed in Plato's Symposium . Lee observes ( 1905 , 19 n . ) : " Nothing was commoner in ...
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... person of a child ( Harbage ) The tone darkens again throughout this sonnet with the relentless repeti- tion of negative epithets : the youth is an unthrifty loveliness , a beauteous nig- gard , a profitless usurer , who has traffic ...
... person of a child ( Harbage ) The tone darkens again throughout this sonnet with the relentless repeti- tion of negative epithets : the youth is an unthrifty loveliness , a beauteous nig- gard , a profitless usurer , who has traffic ...
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... person address to the ses- tet's third - person . This blending of two themes in one sonnet is a technique that Shakespeare will use again in the sequence . The degree to which he does this seamlessly may vary , but he usually manages ...
... person address to the ses- tet's third - person . This blending of two themes in one sonnet is a technique that Shakespeare will use again in the sequence . The degree to which he does this seamlessly may vary , but he usually manages ...
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... person . " I imagine that we have come in the middle of a little trap the poet has laid for the beloved . The poet expresses his love for the young man , who politely returns the compliment . The poet declares that , on the contrary ...
... person . " I imagine that we have come in the middle of a little trap the poet has laid for the beloved . The poet expresses his love for the young man , who politely returns the compliment . The poet declares that , on the contrary ...
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