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Editors' Preface

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Reading Shakespeare's Language: The Sonnets

Shakespeare's Life

An Introduction to This Text

The Sonnets

 Text of the Poems with Commentary

Two Sonnets from The Passionate Pilgrim

Longer Notes

Textual Notes

Appendix of Intertextual Material

Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Modern Perspective

 by Lynne Magnusson

Further Reading

Index to Illustrations

Index of First Lines