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 21
... requiring emendation is forty - six ( four of which are for omissions due to space constraints ) . This does not ... require emendation , I have made a few assumptions . First , the compositor must have , on occasion , acci- dentally set ...
... requiring emendation is forty - six ( four of which are for omissions due to space constraints ) . This does not ... require emendation , I have made a few assumptions . First , the compositor must have , on occasion , acci- dentally set ...
Page 22
... require assuming that the compositor accidentally added a punctuation mark where none was indicated . Only where transposition or misreading can explain a stray pointing is it reasonable to consider compositorial error . Those editors ...
... require assuming that the compositor accidentally added a punctuation mark where none was indicated . Only where transposition or misreading can explain a stray pointing is it reasonable to consider compositorial error . Those editors ...
Page 23
... shared with the spoken . " He also notes that a syncopated vowel is often simply left out , but that there is " as little consistency here as in contemporary spelling : full forms appear where the meter requires syncopation METER 23 Meter.
... shared with the spoken . " He also notes that a syncopated vowel is often simply left out , but that there is " as little consistency here as in contemporary spelling : full forms appear where the meter requires syncopation METER 23 Meter.
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... requires syncopation or , sporadi- cally , a syncopated form is used instead of the expected full form ... require most of its lines to break their phrasing somewhere , it also resists the tendency to divide in half . . . . For iambic ...
... requires syncopation or , sporadi- cally , a syncopated form is used instead of the expected full form ... require most of its lines to break their phrasing somewhere , it also resists the tendency to divide in half . . . . For iambic ...
Page 27
... requires particular attention because it is very eas- ily confused with an " f , " which is very close in appearance ... require some slight effort on the part of the reader to become accus- tomed to Shakespeare's usage when it comes to ...
... requires particular attention because it is very eas- ily confused with an " f , " which is very close in appearance ... require some slight effort on the part of the reader to become accus- tomed to Shakespeare's usage when it comes to ...
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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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