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VIII—THE ‘WILL’ SONNETS
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Elizabethan meanings of ‘will’
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416
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Shakespeare’s uses of the word
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417
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Shakespeare’s puns on the word
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418
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Arbitrary and irregular use of italics by Elizabethan and Jacobean printers
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419
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The conceits of Sonnets cxxxv.-vi. interpreted
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420
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Sonnet cxxxv
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421
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Sonnet cxxxvi
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422
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Sonnet cxxxiv
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425
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Sonnet cxliii
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426
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IX—THE VOGUE OF THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET, 1591–1597
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1557
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Wyatt’s and Surrey’s Sonnets published
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427
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1582
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Watson’s Centurie of Love
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428
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1591
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Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
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428
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I.
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Collected sonnets of feigned love
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429
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1592
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Daniel’s Delia
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430
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Fame of Daniel’s sonnets
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431
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1592
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Constable’s Diana
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431
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1593
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Barnabe Barne’s sonnets
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432
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1593
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Watson’s Tears of Fancie
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433
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1593
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Giles Fletcher’s Licia
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433
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1593
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Lodge’s Phillis
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433
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1594
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Drayton’s Idea
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434
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1594
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Percy’s Cœlia
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435
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1594
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Zepheria
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435
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1595
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Barnfield’s sonnets to Ganymede
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435
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1595
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Spenser’s Amoretti
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435
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1595
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Emaricdulfe
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436
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1595
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Sir John Davies’s Gullinge Sonnets
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436
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1596
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Linche’s Diella
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437
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1596
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Griffin Fidessa
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437
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1596
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Thomas Campion’s sonnets
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437
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1596
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William Smith’s Chloris
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437
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1597
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Robert Tofte’s Laura
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438
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Sir William Alexander’s Aurora
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438
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Sir Fulke Greville’s Cœlica
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438
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Estimate of number of love-sonnets issued between 1591 and 1597
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439
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II.
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Sonnets to patrons, 1591–1597
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440
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III.
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Sonnets on philosophy and religion
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440
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X—BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON THE SONNET IN FRANCE, 1550–1600
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Ronsard (1524–1585) and ‘La Pléiade’
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442
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The Italian sonnetteers of the sixteenth century
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442n.
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Philippe Desportes (1546–1606)
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443
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Chief collections of French sonnets published between 1550 and 1584
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444
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Minor collections of French sonnets published between 1553 and 1605
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444
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INDEX
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