Bibliograph

Readings on the sonnets, Clarice Swisher, book editor

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Readings on the sonnets, Clarice Swisher, book editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-170) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Readings on the sonnets

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

34710924

Responsibility statement

Clarice Swisher, book editor

Series statement

The Greenhaven Press literary companion to British literature

Summary

Presents biographical information about William Shakespeare and a collection of critical essays discussing various aspects of his sonnets, including characters, themes and meanings, and poetic technique

Table Of Contents

The mysterious Q : the 1609 edition of Shakespeare's sonnets / Robert Giroux -- What is a sonnet? / William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman -- The origin and first publication of Shakespeare's sonnets / G.B. Harrison -- Evaluating Shakespeare's sonnets as poetry / W.H. Auden -- Shakespeare used ordinary experiences to create powerful sonnets / John Jay Chapman -- Some sonnets express mixed feelings / Hilton Landry -- Shakespeare's poetic imagery / W.G. Ingram -- The speaker in Shakespeare's sonnets is identifiable / Hallett Smith -- The sonnets are examples of persuasive rhetoric / David Parker -- The use of sound in Shakespeare's sonnets / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Shakespeare's sonnets are the world's greatest love poems / John Dover Wilson -- Shakespeare's sonnets portray a maturing love / Edward Dowden -- The dark lady sonnets explore passion and its effects / Edward Hubler -- Shakespeare's sonnets explore the meaning of time / David Kaula -- Shakespeare searches for immortality in the sonnets / George Herbert Palmer -- Prose versions of seven sonnets / A.L. Rowse -- An analysis of sonnets 18, 29, 30, 73, and 116 / Gerald Hammond -- Dramatic shifts in emphasis make sonnet 73 an effective poem / Stephen Booth -- Shakespeare's sonnets imitate and satirize earlier sonnets / Katharine M. Wilson

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SonnetsReadings on the sonnets, William Shakespeare

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