Sonnets (Vol. 62) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Allen, Michael J. B. “Shakespeare's Man Descending a Staircase: Sonnets 126 to 154.” Shakespeare Survey 31 (1978): 127-38.
Examines the contexts of several of the “weaker” sonnets in this later sequence, finding that some of these poems may be vindicated through closer examination.
Barber, C. L. “An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets.” In Shakespeare's Sonnets, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 5-27. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.
Maintains that even though the sonnets offer virtually nothing in the way of biographical evidence about Shakespeare's life, they still may be read with an eye toward understanding how Shakespeare's own experiences may have informed the writing of the poems.
Cousins, A. D. “Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1-19: The Young Man, The Poet and Father Time.” In Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Narrative Poems, pp. 111-42. New York: Longman,...
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