Shakespeare's Sonnets: With Three Hundred Years of CommentaryFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007 - 404 pages This 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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Page 103
... seems more in line with the OED citations for the verb : " 1611. Stay , clouds , ye rack too fast . 1631. Looke on the clouds and see how speedily they racke away .... 1596. Inconstant clouds , That , rack'd upon the carriage of the ...
... seems more in line with the OED citations for the verb : " 1611. Stay , clouds , ye rack too fast . 1631. Looke on the clouds and see how speedily they racke away .... 1596. Inconstant clouds , That , rack'd upon the carriage of the ...
Page 116
... seem less oppressive . MALONE ( 1780 ) glosses " thoughts " ( line 12 ) as " melancholy . " This may be a secondary meaning , but it seems by no means certain that this is intended . The citation by Onions ( 1986 ) , Hamlet 4.5.188 ...
... seem less oppressive . MALONE ( 1780 ) glosses " thoughts " ( line 12 ) as " melancholy . " This may be a secondary meaning , but it seems by no means certain that this is intended . The citation by Onions ( 1986 ) , Hamlet 4.5.188 ...
Page 149
... seems to express an absurd sentiment following the earlier sonnets about betrayal . Brooke rationalizes it away as one that extols the virtue of constancy rather than asserting that the beloved is constant . Line 14 seems inconsistent ...
... seems to express an absurd sentiment following the earlier sonnets about betrayal . Brooke rationalizes it away as one that extols the virtue of constancy rather than asserting that the beloved is constant . Line 14 seems inconsistent ...
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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