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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... syllables instead of two ) are also occa- sionally found , especially the feminine ending ( an extra unstressed syllable after an iamb at the end of a line ) ; anapests ( two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable ) are ...
... syllables instead of two ) are also occa- sionally found , especially the feminine ending ( an extra unstressed syllable after an iamb at the end of a line ) ; anapests ( two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable ) are ...
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... syllable of a spondee ) , and the breve ( " ) for unstressed syllables . Rhyme Kerrigan discusses rhyme extensively , relying on the work of Fausto Cercig- nani ( 1981 ) in preference to Kökeritz . It is obviously difficult to determine ...
... syllable of a spondee ) , and the breve ( " ) for unstressed syllables . Rhyme Kerrigan discusses rhyme extensively , relying on the work of Fausto Cercig- nani ( 1981 ) in preference to Kökeritz . It is obviously difficult to determine ...
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... syllable of our modern " either , " rhyming with " I " or " be " ( Cercig- nani 1981 , 8 , 131-32 ) . A similar problem occurs with words ending in " y . " Some of these , such as " posterity , " rhyme with " thee , " following modern ...
... syllable of our modern " either , " rhyming with " I " or " be " ( Cercig- nani 1981 , 8 , 131-32 ) . A similar problem occurs with words ending in " y . " Some of these , such as " posterity , " rhyme with " thee , " following modern ...
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... syllables , excepting lines with an unaccented eleventh syllable ( the femi- nine ending , as in Sonnet 87 ) . One must also take into account occasional syl- lables not pronounced through elision or collapsing ( syncope ) , which are ...
... syllables , excepting lines with an unaccented eleventh syllable ( the femi- nine ending , as in Sonnet 87 ) . One must also take into account occasional syl- lables not pronounced through elision or collapsing ( syncope ) , which are ...
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... syllable , precedes the caesura , which breaks the first of what would otherwise be three regular iambs . This emphasizes the stress on " when , " which helps carry the steady rhythm through the next two lines of ten iambs . The second ...
... syllable , precedes the caesura , which breaks the first of what would otherwise be three regular iambs . This emphasizes the stress on " when , " which helps carry the steady rhythm through the next two lines of ten iambs . The second ...
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