ContentsixPreface x1 Introduction: Shakespeare’s “Perfectly Wild” Sonnets 12 Identity 133 Beauty 354 Love 585 Numbers 746 Time 89Appendix: The Matter of the Sonnets 102Notes 152Works Cited 154Index 157
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T his has been a big labour, which would have been impossible had
I not been able to share ideas with (and to borrow from) many col-
leagues and past editors. Several recent editors of the poems have
been exceptionally kind in offering advice and additional assis-
tance. John Kerrigan has been particularly helpful and encourag-
ing, especially since his edition of the Sonnets is such an impossibly
fine example to follow. His careful reading of the typescript saved
me from many errors. Katherine Duncan-Jones has offered many
wise words, in print and in person, without which this edition
would be much poorer than it is. A helpful conversation...
The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age.
Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child...
Of John Webster's life almost nothing is known. The dates 1580-1625 given for his birth and death are conjectural inferences, about which the best that can be said is that no known facts contradict them.
The first notice of Webster so far discovered shows that he was collaborating in the production of plays for the theatrical manager, Henslowe, in 1602, and of such collaboration he seems to have done a considerable amount. Four plays exist which he wrote alone, "The White Devil," "The Duchess of Malfi," "The Devil's Law-Case," and "Appius and Virginia."
"The Duchess of Malfi" was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611. It is based on a story in Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," translated from the Italian...
I cannot omit giving the World an account, of the uncommon Villany of a Gentleman of a good Family in England practis’d upon his Sister, which was attested to me by one who liv’d in the Family, and from whom I had the whole Truth of the Story. I shall conceal the unhappy Gentleman’s own, under the borrow’d Names of Sir William Wilding, who succeeded his Father Sir Edward, in an Estate of near 4000l. a Year, inheriting all that belong’d to him, except his Virtues. ’Tis true, he was oblig’d to pay his only Sister a Portion of 6000l. which he might very easily have done out of his Patrimony in a little Time, the Estate being not in the least incumbred. But the Death of his good Father gave a loose to the Extravagancy of his Inclinations,...
The purpose of this book
English, like all languages, is full of problems for the foreign learner. Some of these points are easy to explain - for instance, the formation of questions, the difference between since and for, the meaning of after all. Other problems are more tricky, and cause difficulty even for advanced students and teachers. How exactly is the present perfect used? When do we use past tenses to be polite? What are the differences between at, on and in with expressions of place? We can say a chair teg - why not *a cat teg? When can we use the expression do sol When is the used with superlatives? Is unless the same as if not? What are the differences between come and go, between each and every, between big, large and great, between...
Grammatical descriptions of English which are addressed to learners are often oversimplified and inaccurate This is the inevitable result of lack of time in the classroom and lack of space in course books and practice books Badly expressed and inaccurate rules, in turn, become enshrined in grammar books directed at teachers and students The misrepresentation of English grammar gives a false view of the language, perpetuates inaccurate 'rules', and results in errors in communication It is against this background that the Longman English Grammar has been writtenThe primary aim of this book is to present a manageable coverage of grammar at intermediate and advanced levels, which will serve two purposes1...
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