Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Appendix E
APPENDIX E
Suggestions for Collateral Reading
Raymond M. Alden: The Sonnets of Shakespeare. From the Quarto of 1609 with variorum readings and commentary. Philadelphia, 1914. (Indispensable for a study of the sonnets.)
The following editions have valuable introductions and notes:
Edward Dowden: Sonnets of William Shakespeare. London, 1881.
Thomas Tyler: Shakespeare's Sonnets. London, 1890. (A presentation of the Herbert theory.)
George Wyndham: Poems of Shakespeare. London, 1898.
C. C. Stopes: Shakespeare's Sonnets. London, 1904. (The editor is an able defender of the Southampton theory. Cf. The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's Patron, Cambridge, England, 1922, by the same writer.)
H. C. Beeching: Sonnets of Shakespeare. Boston, 1904.
Sidney Lee: Shakespeare's Sonnets. A reproduction in facsimile of the first edition (1609). Oxford, 1905.
Sidney Lee: Elizabethan Sonnets, newly arranged and indexed. London, 1904.
J. Vianey: Le Pétrarquisme en France au XVIme siècle. Montpellier, 1909.
William Sharp: Sonnets of this Century. London, N. D. (The introduction contains a valuable discussion of the sonnet form and its history.)
H. D. Gray: 'The Arrangement and Date of Shakespeare's Sonnets.' Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Boston, 1915.
A. C. Bradley: 'Shakespeare the Man,' in Oxford Lectures on Poetry. London, 1909.
The characters of the sonnets in fiction:
Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Mr. W. H. London, 1889; Bernard Shaw: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. London, 1914; Clemence Dane: Will Shakespeare. London, 1921.