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I want now to move on from the areas covered in Part One to a detailed examination of the subject of the young friend. Following on from the previous chapter, it can be seen that the first 17 sonnets have real trouble defining a stable position for this figure. I will now investigate the consequences of this problem for the rest of the sonnets to or about the young friend.
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Notes
J. Fineman: Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets. (London and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
J. Winny: The Master-Mistress. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1968s) pp. 152–3.
L. Jardine: Reading Shakespeare Historically. (London: Routledge, 1996) p. 21.
P. Martin: Shakespeare’s Sonnets. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) p. 158.
H.M. Margoliouth ed: The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
G. Melchiori: Shakespeare’s Dramatic Meditations. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) p. 35.
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Innes, P. (1997). The Young Friend. In: Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372917_5
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