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Shakespeare
's
sonnets
and poems / edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine.
by
Shakespeare
, William, 1564-1616, author.
Washington Square Press, 2006.
Subjects
Sonnets
, English
Summary note:
The language of
Shakespeare
's
Sonnets
, like that of poetry in general, is both highly compressed and highly structured. While most often discussed in terms of its images and its metrical and other formal structures, the language of the
Sonnets
, like that of
Shakespeare
's plays, also repays close attention to such basic linguistic elements as words, word order, and sentence structure.
Shakespeare
's words: Because
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
were written four hundred years ago, they inevitably contain words that are unfamiliar today. Some are words that are no longer in general use -- words that the dictionaries label archaic or obsolete, or that have so fallen out of use that dictionaries no longer include them. One surprising feature of the
Sonnets
is how rarely such archaic words appear. Among the more than a thousand words that make up the first ten
sonnets
, for instance, only eleven are not to be found in current usage: self-substantial ("derived from one's own substance"), niggarding ("being miserly"), unfair ("deprive of beauty"), leese ("lose"), happies ("makes happy"), steep-up ("precipitous"), highmost ("highest"), hap ("happen"), unthrift ("spendthrift"), unprovident ("improvident"), and ruinate ("reduce to ruins"). Somewhat more common in the
Sonnets
are words that are still in use but that in
Shakespeare
's day had meanings that are no longer current. In the first three
sonnets
, for example, we find only used where we might say "peerless" or "preeminent," gaudy used to mean "brilliantly fine," weed where we would say "garment," glass where we would say "mirror," and fond where we would say "foolish." Words of this kind -- that is, words that are no longer used or that are used with unfamiliar meanings -- will be defined in our facing-page notes.
Series:
New Folger Library
Shakespeare
New Folger Library
Shakespeare
Series:
The New Folger Library
Shakespeare
Description:
xix, 684 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
: Reading
Shakespeare
's language:
Sonnets
--
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
-- Introduction to this text --
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
: Text of the poems with commentary -- Two
sonnets
from ''Passionate pilgrim'' -- Longer notes --
Shakespeare
's poems: Reading
Shakespeare
's language: Venus and Adonis and Lucrece -- Introduction to this text --
Shakespeare
's Venus and Adonis -- Venus and Adonis: Text of the poem with commentary -- Longer notes --
Shakespeare
's Lucrece -- Lucrece: Text of the poem with commentary -- Longer notes --
Shakespeare
's ''Phoenix and turtle'': ''Phoenix and turtle'': Text of the poem with commentary -- Longer notes -- Textual notes:
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
-- Venus and Adonis -- Lucrece --
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
: Appendix of intertextual material -- Modern perspectives:
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
/ Lynne Magnusson -- Venus and Adonis and Lucrece / Catherine Belsey -- Further reading:
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
--
Shakespeare
's poems -- Index of first lines of
Shakespeare
's
sonnets
-- Index of illustrations.
URL:
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006042105-s.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006042105-t.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0643/2006042105-d.html
Notes:
At head of title: Folger
Shakespeare
Library.
Added authors:
Mowat, Barbara A. editor.
Werstine, Paul editor.
Additional title:
Works. Selections. 2006
Sonnets
and poems
ISBN:
9780743273282
0743273281
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