The Sonnets in the eighteenth century --
An essay on the rise and progress of the stage in Greece, Rome, and England" and "Remarks on the poems of Shakespear," from Poems. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear, vol. 7 / Charles Gildon 1710 --
From " Advertisement," from A Collection of Poems... by Mr. William Shakespeare / Bernard Lintott 1711 --
From "Preface" to The Plays and poems of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes / Edmund Malone 1790 --
From " Advertisement," from The Plays of William Shakespeare in Fifteen Volumes..., 4th edition / George Steevens 1793 --
The Sonnets in the nineteenth century --
From Marginalia / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803 --
From Letters / John Keats 1817 --
"Preliminary remarks," from The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, vol. 20 / James Boswell 1821 --
"Scorn not the sonnet" / William Wordsworth 1827 --
From Table Talk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1833 --
From Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries / Henry Hallam 1842 --
From Shakespere : A Critical Study of His Mind and Art / Edward Dowden 1872 --
"House" / Robert Browning 1876 --
From A Study of Shakespeare / Algernon Charles Swinburne 1879 --
From Shakspere and His Forerunners / Sidney Lanier 1879 --
"The portrait of Mr. W.H.," from Blackwood's Magazine / Oscar Wilde 1889 --
From Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered / Samuel Butler 1899 --
The Sonnets in the twentieth century --
"Ovid and Shakespeare's sonnets," from Elizabethan and Other Essays / Sir Sidney Lee 1909 --
From "Preface" to The Dark Lady of the Sonnets / George Bernard Shaw 1910 --
"A study in original punctuation and spelling," from A Survey of Modernist Poetry / Robert Graves and Laura Riding 1926 --
"They that have power," form Some Versions of Pastoral / William Empson 1935 --
"The dramatic technique of Shakespeare's sonnets," from Essays in Criticism / G.K. Hunter 1964 --
"A note on the dedication," from Shakespeare's Sonnets / W.G. Ingram and Theodore Redpath 1964 --
From "Shakespeare and Sidney," from The "Inward" Language : Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne / Anne Ferry 1983 --
"Shakespeare's 'Perjur'd Eye,'" from Representations / Joel Fineman 1984 --
"Anti-hermeneutics : the case of Shakespeare's sonnet 129," from The Vulnerable Text : Essays on Renaissance Literature / Thomas M. Greene 1986 --
"The secret sharer," from Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England : A Cultural Poetics / Bruce R. Smith 1991 --
"The scandal of Shakespeare's sonnets," from Shakespeare Survey / Margreta de Grazia 1994 --
"Introduction" to The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Helen Vendler 1997 --
"Shakespeare's autobiographical poems?" from the Genius of Shakespeare / Jonathan Bate 1998 --
The Sonnets in the twenty-first century : a brief overview --
"O, let my books be.... dumb presagers'' : poetry and theatre in the sonnets," from Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright / Patrick Cheney 2004 --
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
Biography of William Shakespeare --
Summary of The Sonnets --
List of personas in The Sonnets --
Three poems from The Sonnets --
Criticism through the ages --
The Sonnets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries --
From Palladis Tamia, or Wit's Treasury / Francis Meres 1598 --
Versions of sonnets 138 and 144 from William Jaggard's anthology The Passionate Pilgrim / William Shakespeare 1599 --
Dedication from Shake-speares Sonnets / Thomas Thorpe 1609 --
"Epistle to the reader," from Poems : written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. / John Benson 1640 --