The SonnetsNew American Library, 1964 - 240 pages Updated edition of Shakespeare?'s Sonnets, with a brand new introduction by Stephen Orgel. |
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Page xxviii
... express passionate emotions , whether of adoration or anger or grief or disgust , owe a very great deal of their effect precisely to Shake- peare's artifice , for without the restraint and distancing which the rhetorical devices provide ...
... express passionate emotions , whether of adoration or anger or grief or disgust , owe a very great deal of their effect precisely to Shake- peare's artifice , for without the restraint and distancing which the rhetorical devices provide ...
Page 180
... express The manner of my pity - wanting pain . If I might teach thee wit , better it were , Though not to love , yet love , to tell me so ; As testy sick men , when their deaths be near , No news but health from their physicians know ...
... express The manner of my pity - wanting pain . If I might teach thee wit , better it were , Though not to love , yet love , to tell me so ; As testy sick men , when their deaths be near , No news but health from their physicians know ...
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... express the nature of the experience with which the language deals . No doubt a knowledge of rhetoric , which must direct atten- tion to verbal patterns , did something to develop this power . Of the early plays it may be true to say ...
... express the nature of the experience with which the language deals . No doubt a knowledge of rhetoric , which must direct atten- tion to verbal patterns , did something to develop this power . Of the early plays it may be true to say ...
Contents
PREFATORY REMARKS | vii |
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
TEXTUAL NOTE | 195 |
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