7
main topics of the first 'group,' 98 99
main topics of the second 'group,' 99 100
rearrangement in the edition of 1640, 100
autobiographical only in a limited sense, 100 109 125 152 160
censure of them by Sir John Davies, 107
their borrowed conceits, 109-24
indebtedness to Drayton, Petrarch, Ronsard, De Baif, Desportes, and
others, 110-12
the poet's claim of immortality for his sonnets, 113-16 cf. 114 _n_
1
the 'Will Sonnets,' 117 (and Appendix VIII)
praise of 'blackness,' 118
vituperation, 120-4
'dedicatory' sonnets, 125 _seq._
the 'rival poet,' 130-6
sonnets of friendship, 136 138-47
the supposed story of intrigue 153-8
summary of conclusions respecting the sonnets, 158-60
edition of 1640, 300

Sonnets, quoted with explanatory comments:
xx. 93 _n_ : xxvi. 128 _n_ : xxxii. 128 129 _n_ : xxxvii. 130
xxxviii. 129 : xxxix. 130 : xlvi.-xlvii. 112 113 _n_ 1
lv. 115 116 : lxxiv. 130 (_quot._) : lxxviii. 125
lxxx. 134 : lxxxv. 133 : lxxxvi. 132 : lxxxviii. 133
lxxxix. 133 : xciv. 1 14 72 89 : c. 126
ciii. 126 : cvii. 13 _n_ 87 147 149 380
cviii. 130 : cx. 44 130 : cxi. 45 : cxix. 152 and _n_
cxxiv. 425 : cxxvi. 97 and _n_ : cxxvii. 118
cxxix. 152 153 and _n_ 1 : cxxxii. 118
cxxxv.-cxxxvi. 420-424 : cxxxviii. 89
cxliii. 93 _n_ 425 426 and _n_ : cxliv. 89 153 301
cliii.-cliv. 113 and _n_ 2
the vogue of the Elizabethan: English sonnettering inaugurated by
Wyatt and Surrey, 83 427 428
followed by Thomas Watson, 83 428
Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella,' 83 428 429 and _n_
poets celebrate patrons' virtues in sonnets, 84
conventional device of sonnetteers of feigning old age, 85 86 _n_
lack of genuine sentiment, 100
French and Italian models, 101 and _n_ 1 102-5 Appendices IX. and
X.
translations from Du Bellay, Desportes, and Petrarch, 101 and _n_ 4
102 103
admissions of insincerity, 105
censure of false sentiment in sonnets, 106
Shakespeare's scornful allusions to sonnets in his plays, 107 108
vituperative sonnets, 120-24
the word 'sonnet' often used for 'song' or 'poem,' 427 _n_ 2
I. Collected sonnets of feigned love, 1591-7, 429-40
II. Sonnets to patrons, 440
III. Sonnets on philosophy and religion, 440 441
number of sonnets p