Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-376) and index.
Contents:
Poems : written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. / Introduction / John Benson Biography of William Shakespeare -- Summary of The Sonnets -- List of personas in The Sonnets -- 1640 -- speaker -- The young man -- The dark lady -- The rival poet -- Three poems from The Sonnets -- Sonnet 3 -- Sonnet 64 -- Sonnet 116 -- Criticism through the ages -- The Sonnets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- From Palladis Tamia, or Wit's Treasury / Francis Meres 1598 -- Versions of sonnets 138 and 144 from William Jaggard's anthology The Passionate Pilgrim / William Shakespeare 1599 -- Dedication from Shake-speares Sonnets / Thomas Thorpe 1609 -- "Epistle to the reader," from Poems : written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. / John Benson 1640 -- 1872 -- From Shakespere : A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / An essay on the rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome, and England" and "Remarks on the poems of Shakespear," from Poems. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, vol. 7 / Edward Dowden 1710 -- From " Advertisement," from A Collection of Poems... by Mr. William Shakespeare / Bernard Lintott 1711 -- From "Preface" to The Plays and poems of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes / Edmund Malone 1790 -- From " Advertisement," from The Plays of William Shakespeare in Fifteen Volumes..., 4th edition / George Steevens 1793 -- The Sonnets in the nineteenth century -- From Marginalia / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803 -- From Letters / John Keats 1817 -- "Preliminary remarks," from The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, vol. 20 / James Boswell 1821 -- "Scorn not the sonnet" / William Wordsworth 1827 -- From Table Talk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1833 -- From Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries / Henry Hallam 1842 -- From Shakespere : A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden 1872 -- Shakespeare's Sonnets / Theodore Redpath 1964 -- From A Study of Shakespeare / Algernon Charles Swinburne 1879 -- From Shakspere and His Forerunners / Sidney Lanier 1879 -- "The portrait of Mr. W.H.," from Blackwood's Magazine / Oscar Wilde 1889 -- From Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered / Samuel Butler 1899 -- The Sonnets in the twentieth century -- "Ovid and Shakespeare's sonnets," from Elizabethan and Other Essays / Sir Sidney Lee 1909 -- From "Preface" to The Dark Lady of the Sonnets / George Bernard Shaw 1910 -- "A study in original punctuation and spelling," from A Survey of Modernist Poetry / Robert Graves and Laura Riding 1926 -- "They that have power," form Some Versions of Pastoral / William Empson 1935 -- "The dramatic technique of Shakespeare's sonnets," from Essays in Criticism / G.K. Hunter 1964 -- "A note on the dedication," from Shakespeare's Sonnets / W.G. Ingram and Theodore Redpath 1964 -- Index. 2004 -- "Inward" Language : Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne / Patrick Cheney 1983 -- "Shakespeare's 'Perjur'd Eye,'" from Representations / Joel Fineman 1984 -- "Anti-hermeneutics : the case of Shakespeare's sonnet 129," from The Vulnerable Text : Essays on Renaissance Literature / Thomas M. Greene 1986 -- "The secret sharer," from Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England : A Cultural Poetics / Bruce R. Smith 1991 -- "The scandal of Shakespeare's sonnets," from Shakespeare Survey / Margreta de Grazia 1994 -- "Introduction" to The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Helen Vendler 1997 -- "Shakespeare's autobiographical poems?" from the Genius of Shakespeare / Jonathan Bate 1998 -- The Sonnets in the twenty-first century : a brief overview -- "O, let my books be.... dumb presagers'' : poetry and theatre in the sonnets," from Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright / Patrick Cheney 2004 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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