Sonnets & Poetry

1. In Allen, Don Cameron. Image and Meaning. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. pp. 42-101.
   Criticism -- "The Rape of Lucrece" -- The Tempest -- "Venus and Adonis"

2. In Alpers, Paul J., ed. Elizabethan Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. pp. 251-320.
   Criticism -- Sonnets -- "Venus and Adonis"

3. In Beaver, Harold, ed. American Critical Essays, Twentieth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 40-50.
   Criticism -- "The Phoenix and the Turtle"

4. In Broadbent, J. B. Poetic love. Barnes & Noble [1965]. pp. 143-158, 174-212.
   Criticism -- Poetry -- The Plays -- The Sonnets

5. In Bush, Douglas. Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry. New York, W. W. Norton, 1963. pp. 137-155.
   Criticism -- "Rape of Lucrece" -- "Venus and Adonis"

6. In de Selincourt, E. Oxford lectures on poetry. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1967]. pp. 78-105.
   Criticism -- Poetry -- Troilus and Cressida

7. In Dinsmore, Charles Allen. Great Poets and the Meaning of Life. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1968, c1937. pp. 155-215.
   Criticism -- Sonnets -- Romances -- Tragedies -- Hamlet -- Julius Caesar -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Othello -- Timon of Athens --

8. In Donoghue, Denis. England, Their England: Commentaries on English Language and Literature. New York: Knopf, 1988. pp. 37-63.
   Criticism -- Works -- Language -- Sonnets

9. In Douglas, Wallace, ed. The Critical Reader. New York, Norton, 1962. pp. 668-671.
   Criticism -- Sonnets -- "Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore"(60)

10. In Ferry, Anne. All in War with Time. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1975. pp. 1-64.
    Criticism -- Sonnets

11. In Frankenberg, Lloyd. Invitation to Poetry. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1956. See index.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Sonnets -- "As an imperfect actor on the stage"(23) -- "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan"(83) -- "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing"(87) -- "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"(130) -- "Over hill, over dale" -- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"(18) -- "So is it not with me as with that muse"(21) -- "So now I have confess'd that he is thine"(134) -- "So shall I live, suppossing thou art true"(93) -- "So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not" -- "Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all"(40) -- "That thou hast her, it is not all my grief"(42) -- "That time of year thou may'st in me behold"(73) -- "That you were once unkind befriends me now"(120) -- "Those petty wrongs that liberty commits"(41) -- "'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed"(121) -- "Two loves have I of comfort and despair"(144) -- "Was it the proud full sail of his great verse"(86) -- "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"(29) -- "A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted"(20) -- "Why is my verse so barren of new pride?"(76) -- "You spotted snakes with double tongue"

12. In Hadfield, Andrew. English Renaissance, 1500-1620. Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001. pp. 198-203, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Sonnets -- "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame (129) -- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"(130) -- "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"(18) -- "Two loves have I of comfort and despair"(144)

13. In Highet, Gilbert. The Powers of Poetry. New York, Oxford University Press, 1960. pp. 39-46, 302-307, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Hamlet -- Sonnets

14. In Hosley, Richard, ed. Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama. Columbia, Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1962. pp. 115-136.
    Criticism -- Plays -- Sonnets -- The Comedy of Errors -- Hamlet -- Henry the V -- Merchant of Venice -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Timon of Athens -- Troilus and Cressida -- The Winter's Tale

15. In Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne . New York, Viking Press, 1971. See index.
    Criticism -- Works -- Cymbeline -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Merchant of Venice -- Midsummer Night's Dream -- Pericles -- "Phoenix and the Turtle" -- The Tempest -- Twelfth Night -- The Winter's Tale

16. In Knights, L. C. Explorations: Essays in Criticism Mainly on the Literature of the Seventeenth Century. New York: New York University Press, 1964 [c.1947]. pp. 15-93.
    Criticism -- Macbeth -- Sonnets -- Hamlet

17. In Lever, J.W. The Elizabethan Love Sonnet . London, Methuen, 1956. pp. 162-272.
    Criticism -- Sonnets

18. In Lewis, C.S. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1954. pp.499-509.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Sonnets -- "Phoenix and the Turtle" -- "Rape of Lucrece" -- "Venus and Adonis"

19. In Levi, Peter. The Art of Poetry . New Haven : Yale University Press, c1991. pp. 128-146.
    Criticism -- Sonnets

20. In MacKail, J. W. Lectures on Poetry. Freeport, N. Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1967. pp. 179-230.
    Criticism -- Romances -- Sonnets

21. In Peterson, Douglas. The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1967. pp. 212-251.
    Criticism -- Sonnets

22. In Quinones, Raymond. The Renaissance Discovery of Time. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972. pp. 290-443.
    Criticism -- Works -- Time in Literature -- The Comedies -- The Histories -- The Tragedies -- Sonnets -- Hamlet -- Henry IV, Parts I & II -- King Lear -- Macbeth -- Richard II -- The Tempest -- The Winter's Tale --

23. In Rowse, A.L. The English Spirit. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. pp. 19-49.
    Criticism -- Sonnets

24. In Shakespearean Essays. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1964. pp. 1-181.
    Criticism -- "Venus and Adonis" -- The Taming of the Shrew -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- As You Like It -- Measure for Measure -- Tempest -- Henry V -- Troilus and Cressida -- Titus Andronicus -- King Lear -- Hamlet-- Miranda -- Women in Shakespeare

25. In Strachey, Lytton. Spectatorial Essays. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. pp. 71-75.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- The Sonnets

26. In Williams, Oscar, ed. Master Poems of the English Language. New York : Trident Press, 1966. pp. 57-71.
    Criticism -- Poetry -- Sonnets -- "The Phoenix and the Turtle"

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