The distribution of pronouns in Shakespeare's Sonnets

AUMLA-Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association

Volumn 97, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Jackson, Macd P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 60950026154     PISSN: 00012793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/aulla.2002.97.1.003     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. For a brief survey of changing opinion about the order of Shakespeare's Sonnets, see the opening section of MacD. P. Jackson, "Aspects of Organization in Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)," Panrgon 17 (1999): 109-34. The most impressive work by a "re-arranger" is Brents Stirling's, The Shakespeare Sonnet Order Poems and Groups (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969)
2. The main contributions are described and documented in Jackson, "Aspects of Organization." A key article was Katherine Duncan-Jones, "Was the 1609 Shake-speare's Sonnets Really Unauthorized?" Review of English Studies 34 (1983): 151-71.
3. Duncan-Jones's Arden Shakespeare's Sonnets (London: Nelson, 1997) supports the Quarto order.
4. Jennifer Laws, "The Generic Complexities of A Lover's Complaint and its Relationship to the Sonnets in Shakespeare's 1609 Volume," AUMLA 89 (1998): 79-97
5. and Bona Bell, That which thou hast done': Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint, in Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer (New York and London: Garland, 1999), 455-74, both provide persuasive literary-critical demonstrations of the aptness of A Lover's Complaint to its Quarto context.
6. See also my "Shakespeare's Sonnets. Rhyme and Reason in the Dark Lady Series," Notes and Queries 244 (1999): 219-22.
7. Heather Dubrow, '"Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd': The Politics of Plotting Shakespeare's Sonnets," Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 291-305.
8. Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997), 22.
9. Both Kerrigan and Duncan-Jones retain "by," as does G. Blakemore Evans (ed.), The Sonnets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
10. Sonnet 145's relation to its context is discussed in my "Aspects of Organization" 128-31. The sonnet was brilliandy illuminated by Andrew Gurr, "Shakespeare's First Poem: Sonnet 145," Essays in Criticism 21 (1971): 221-26.
11. R. P. Blackmur, "A Poetics of Infatuation," in The Riddle of Shakespeare's Sonnets, ed. Edward Hubler (New York: Basic Books, 1962), 131-32.