Shakespeare : the sonnets

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Cover; Contents; General Editors Preface; Introduction; PART 1 ANALYSING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS; 1 Love, or What You Will; Sonnet 4 'Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend'; Sonnet 129 'Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame'; Sonnet 20 'A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted'; Conclusions; Further Research; 2 Time: to Posterity and Beyond; Sonnet 5 'Those hours that with gentle work did frame'; Sonnet 12 'When I do count the clock that tells the time'; Sonnet 60 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore'; Sonnet 116 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds'; Conclusions. Further Research3 Art: Clever, Very; Sonnet 23 'As an unperfect actor on the stage'; Sonnet 55 'Not marble nor the gilded monuments'; Sonnet 100 'Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long'; Sonnet 106 'When in the chronicle of wasted time'; Conclusions; Further Research; 4 The Rival Poet(s): a Lesson in Tightropes?; Sonnet 78 'So oft have I invoked thee for my muse'; Sonnet 79 'Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid'; Sonnet 82 'I grant thou wert not married to my Muse'; Sonnet 86 'Was it the proud full sail of his great verse'; Conclusions; Further Research. 5 Fair's Fair: the Dark MistressesSonnet 127 'In the old age black was not counted fair'; Sonnet 130 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'; Sonnet 144 'Two loves I have of comfort and despair'; Sonnet 152 'In loving thee thou knowst I anl forsworn'; Conclusions; Further Research; PART 2 THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS; 6 Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet; Shakespeare the poet; The sonnet form; English sonneteers; The sonnet sequence; The end of the century and the end of the sonnet (for now); The Court and courtly love; 7 Humanism, Rhetoric and Poetry; Realism and rhetoric. Renaissance humanism and literatureThe craft of poetry; 8 Some Critical Responses to the Sonnets; G. Wilson Knight; Stephen Booth; A.D. Cousins; Peter Hyland; A Glossary of Some Rhetorical and Literary Terms; Further Reading; Index