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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... similar lectures . " I am inclined to his suggestion that , perhaps , The Sonnets were written for such an academy of Shakespeare's friends ( 5 ) . The autobiographical approach also leads to problems in understanding the order of The ...
... similar lectures . " I am inclined to his suggestion that , perhaps , The Sonnets were written for such an academy of Shakespeare's friends ( 5 ) . The autobiographical approach also leads to problems in understanding the order of The ...
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... similar problems have been noted in Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence , Amoretti ( Lever 1956 , 98-100 ) : jarringly different views of the beloved in adjacent sonnets ; mention of time spans that do not correlate with one another ...
... similar problems have been noted in Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence , Amoretti ( Lever 1956 , 98-100 ) : jarringly different views of the beloved in adjacent sonnets ; mention of time spans that do not correlate with one another ...
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... similar problem occurs with words ending in " y . " Some of these , such as " posterity , " rhyme with " thee , " following modern pronunciation . Others , such as " memory , " rhyme with " die . " Kerrigan ( 1986 , 170 ) considers the ...
... similar problem occurs with words ending in " y . " Some of these , such as " posterity , " rhyme with " thee , " following modern pronunciation . Others , such as " memory , " rhyme with " die . " Kerrigan ( 1986 , 170 ) considers the ...
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... Similar pauses in two places may be indicated by a comma in one and no punctuation in the other . Both capitalization and italicization were used to indicate emphasis , the lat- ter also for proper nouns and foreign words ( see ...
... Similar pauses in two places may be indicated by a comma in one and no punctuation in the other . Both capitalization and italicization were used to indicate emphasis , the lat- ter also for proper nouns and foreign words ( see ...
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... similar effect . Brooke ( 1936 , 244 ) notes : " The syntax is strained . " This we shall also find to be common in The Sonnets . The syntax is hard to make out , but the sense is not — it means , of course , " by your dying . " This is ...
... similar effect . Brooke ( 1936 , 244 ) notes : " The syntax is strained . " This we shall also find to be common in The Sonnets . The syntax is hard to make out , but the sense is not — it means , of course , " by your dying . " This is ...
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