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008    060303s2006    nyua     b    001 0 eng   
010    2006042105 
020    0743273281 (alk. paper) 
020    9780743273282 (alk. paper) 
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100 1  Shakespeare, William,|d1564-1616. 
240 10 Works.|kSelections.|f2006 
245 10 Shakespeare's sonnets and poems /|cedited by Barbara A. 
       Mowat and Paul Werstine. 
246 30 Sonnets and poems 
264  1 New York :|bWashington Square Press,|c2006. 
300    xix, 684 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0  Shakespeare's sonnets: Reading Shakespeare's language: 
       Sonnets -- Shakespeare's sonnets -- An 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 -- An 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 
       ''The Phoenix and turtle'': ''The 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 / by Lynne Magnusson -- Venus and 
       Adonis and Lucrece / by Catherine Belsey -- Further 
       reading: Shakespeare's sonnets -- Shakespeare's poems -- 
       Index of first lines of Shakespeare's sonnets -- Index of 
       illustrations. 
520    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. 
650  0 Shakespeare, William,|d1564-1616|xSonnets. 
650  0 Shakespeare, William,|d1564-1616|xPoetic works. 
700 1  Mowat, Barbara A. 
700 1  Werstine, Paul. 
830  0 New Folger Library Shakespeare.