The SonnetsNew American Library, 1988 - 246 pages "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... lines which is unnecessary , or to draw a moral which is too glib and trite . In the case of Shakespeare himself , though there are some wonderful couplets , for example the conclusion of 61 , For thee watch I , whilst thou dost wake ...
... lines which is unnecessary , or to draw a moral which is too glib and trite . In the case of Shakespeare himself , though there are some wonderful couplets , for example the conclusion of 61 , For thee watch I , whilst thou dost wake ...
Page xxvii
... lines where appropriate ) Professor C. S. Lewis on Sonnet 18. " As often , " he says , " the theme begins at line 9 , But thy eternal summer shall not fade , occupying four lines , and the application is in the couplet : Line 1 So long ...
... lines where appropriate ) Professor C. S. Lewis on Sonnet 18. " As often , " he says , " the theme begins at line 9 , But thy eternal summer shall not fade , occupying four lines , and the application is in the couplet : Line 1 So long ...
Page 235
... lines one and twelve : the wood is still blest because of the continued gentle playing of the lady's fingers upon it . The central project of invention , then , is to modify , during twelve lines , the lover's response to an unchanging ...
... lines one and twelve : the wood is still blest because of the continued gentle playing of the lady's fingers upon it . The central project of invention , then , is to modify , during twelve lines , the lover's response to an unchanging ...
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Afterword beauteous beauty's beloved Bergenfield blessèd C. S. Lewis canst cold conceit confounds couplet dear death decay dost thou doth edge of doom edition editors Elizabethan emended express fair false Falstaff fingers flower Folio Francis Meres gentle George Eliot give grace happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Henry Condell imagery jacks Jane Austen kiss leaves lily lines lips live look love's lover metaphors mind mistress Muse nature nature's niggard night person play poem poet praise prince prove quarto quatrain rhyme seems sense sestet sexual shadow Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets shame Stratford summer's synecdoche tell thine eye things thou art thou dost thought thy beauty thy love thy sweet thyself Time's true truth University Press verse virtue Vision of Eros W. H. AUDEN William Empson William Shakespeare wilt words write youth