In the Workshop
Tom Paulin: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 22 January 1998
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Helen Vendler.
Harvard, 672 pp., £23.50, December 1997,0 674 63712 7 Show More
by Helen Vendler.
Harvard, 672 pp., £23.50, December 1997,
Shakespeare's Sonnets
edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Arden, 503 pp., £7.99, September 1997,1 903436 57 5 Show More
edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Arden, 503 pp., £7.99, September 1997,
“... be equally true of its paraphrasable content.’ Taking issue with a recent editor of the Sonnets, John Kerrigan, she points to his lack of interest in the linguistic variation in sonnet 129, and says he takes ‘a single-minded expository view of the poem, as though it were a self-consistent sermon’. For Vendler, the verbal imagination’s true intent is ... ”