SOURCE: “Criticism and the Analysis of Craft: The Sonnets,” in Shakespeare's Sonnets, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, pp. 29-45.
In the following essay, originally published in 1974, Colie explores Shakespeare's sonnets, and contends that Shakespeare made significant deviations from contemporary sonneteering practices.
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