CONTENTS.

THE SONNETS :-

Notices and Comments .

Of the Personal Theory as interpreted by Charles

Armitage Brown . . . . .

Of the period at which the Earlier Sonnets were Written

and the Person to whom they are Addressed . .

Life and Character of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of

Southampton

PoET AND PATRON :-

Their Personal Friendship

PersonAL SONNETS :-

Shakspeare to the Earl, wishing him to Marry.

Shakspeare to the Earl, in praise of his Personal Beauty

Shakspeare to the Earl, promising Immortality . .

Shakspeare to the Earl, chiefly concerning a Rival Poet,

adjudged to be Marlowe . . . . .

Shakspeare is about to write on the Courtship of his

Friend Southampton, according to the Earl's suggestion

DRAMATIC SONNETS :-

Southampton in love with Elizabeth Vernon . .

PERSONAL SONNETS :-

Shakspeare to the Earl, when he has known him some

three years ·

Shakspeare proposes to write of the Earl in his absence

abroad

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DRAMATIC SONNETS :-

The Earl to Mistress Vernon on and in his absence

abroad . . . . . .

PersonAL SONNETS :-

Shakspeare of the Earl in his absence.

THE DARK STORY OF THE SONNETS.

DRAMATIC SONNETS :-

Elizabeth Vernon's Jealousy of her Lover, Lord South-

ampton, and her Friend, Lady Rich.

A PERSONAL SONNET :-

Shakspeare on the Slander . . . .

DRAMATIC SONnets :-

The Earl to Elizabeth Vernon after the Jealousy

Elizabeth Vernon repays the Earl by a Flirtation of her

own : His Reproach . . . . .

PERSONAL SONNETS :-

Shakspeare is sad for the Earl's 'Harmful Deeds '

DRAMATIC SONNETS :-

A Farewell of the Earl's to Elizabeth Vernon .

The Earl to Elizabeth Vernon after his Absence

PERSONAL SONNETS :-

Shakspeare to the Earl after some Time of Silence

DRAMATIC SONNETS :

The Earl to Elizabeth Vernon—Their Final Reconcilia-

tion : with Shakspeare's Sonnet on their Marriage .

PERSONAL SONNETS:-

Shakspeare to the Earl, chiefly on his own Death .

DRAMATIC SONNETS :-

Southampton, in the Tower, to his Countess, also Shak-

speare to the Earl in Prison, and upon his Release .

Tue MSS. BOOK OF THE SOUTHAMPTON SONNETS .

DRAMATIC SONNETS :-

The · Dark 'Lady of the Latter Sonnets

William Herbert's Passion for Lady Rich

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