A Treasury of English Sonnets: The Original Sources with Notes and Illustrations (Classic Reprint)

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In pursuance of tile plan adopted, tbe volume falls into two egaalportz'ons, T ext ana' N ates. T be first is a'evotea' to San nets by time writers babe attained ibe bzlg/zest, or nearly tbe bzlgbest, exeellenee z'7z ibis species of composition; ana' ibe seeona', w/a'eb is specially intended for students, to a liberal system of illustration, fumz'sbz'ng a complete critical apparatus for ibe study of ibe Sonnets in tbe T ext, and containing meme rbus supplementary Sonneis by Me same writers and bikers of tbe past suggested by tbem. T broug/zoat tbz'sportz'on also babe been interspersed, as occasion oferea', examples from some of our best living sonnet writers; but it will be obvious tbat tbese, wbz'eb eome z'7z simply by z'lze way, and form 720 essem'z'al part of tbe work, are not sabmz'z'tea' as afbra'z'ng any aa'eguaz'e repre sentation of our contemporary Soanet - lz'teralare.

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