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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... verse is more substantial than can be found in any other edition, a feature that adds particular dimension to this text. Since the last variorum edition, the study of The Sonnets has advanced significantly so that the issues discussed ...
... verse is more substantial than can be found in any other edition, a feature that adds particular dimension to this text. Since the last variorum edition, the study of The Sonnets has advanced significantly so that the issues discussed ...
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... verse lines , a contemporaneous immediacy denied to later readers or editors " ( G. B. Evans 1996 , 285 ) . The willingness of modern editors to ignore the bibliographic principle that copy - text accidentals should generally be ...
... verse lines , a contemporaneous immediacy denied to later readers or editors " ( G. B. Evans 1996 , 285 ) . The willingness of modern editors to ignore the bibliographic principle that copy - text accidentals should generally be ...
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... verse . Second , we should not expect Shake- speare's punctuation to be more consistent than his own spelling , and certainly not more consistent than modern punctuation . If we allow for a reasonable amount of compositorial error and ...
... verse . Second , we should not expect Shake- speare's punctuation to be more consistent than his own spelling , and certainly not more consistent than modern punctuation . If we allow for a reasonable amount of compositorial error and ...
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... verse written in iambic pentameter contains variations in this basic pattern . Instead of the usual iambic foot , some feet may instead contain a trochee ( a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed sylla- ble ) , a spondee ( two ...
... verse written in iambic pentameter contains variations in this basic pattern . Instead of the usual iambic foot , some feet may instead contain a trochee ( a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed sylla- ble ) , a spondee ( two ...
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... verse is good enough for me . Some editors interpret " use " in line 7 to mean " lend at interest " or " invest , " but Tucker ( 1924 ) is surely right when he says " Not here ' invest ' ( since he does nothing of the kind ) , but ...
... verse is good enough for me . Some editors interpret " use " in line 7 to mean " lend at interest " or " invest , " but Tucker ( 1924 ) is surely right when he says " Not here ' invest ' ( since he does nothing of the kind ) , but ...
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