JOHN BLADES has lectured in English Literature at the universities of Leeds and Durham, UK. His publications include critical studies of James Joyce and John Keats: The Poems and Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, also in the Analysing Texts series.

• General Editor's PrefaceIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETSLove (or what you will)Time: to posterity and beyondArt: clever, veryThe Rival Poet(s): a lesson in tightropes?Fair's fair: The Dark MistressesPART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICSShakespeare and the Elizabethan SonnetHumanism, Rhetoric and PoetryReaders and WritersSome Critical Responses to the SonnetsA Glossary of Some Rhetorical and Literary TermsFurther ReadingIndex.

JOHN BLADES has lectured in English Literature at the universities of Leeds and Durham, UK. His publications include critical studies of James Joyce and John Keats: The Poems and Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, also in the Analysing Texts series.

• General Editor's PrefaceIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETSLove (or what you will)Time: to posterity and beyondArt: clever, veryThe Rival Poet(s): a lesson in tightropes?Fair's fair: The Dark MistressesPART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICSShakespeare and the Elizabethan SonnetHumanism, Rhetoric and PoetryReaders and WritersSome Critical Responses to the SonnetsA Glossary of Some Rhetorical and Literary TermsFurther ReadingIndex.

JOHN BLADES has lectured in English Literature at the universities of Leeds and Durham, UK. His publications include critical studies of James Joyce and John Keats: The Poems and Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, also in the Analysing Texts series.

• General Editor's PrefaceIntroductionPART I: ANALYSING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETSLove (or what you will)Time: to posterity and beyondArt: clever, veryThe Rival Poet(s): a lesson in tightropes?Fair's fair: The Dark MistressesPART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICSShakespeare and the Elizabethan SonnetHumanism, Rhetoric and PoetryReaders and WritersSome Critical Responses to the SonnetsA Glossary of Some Rhetorical and Literary TermsFurther ReadingIndex.