Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

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Versions of
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
attr. to William Shakespeare, collected by William Jaggard

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This collection of six poems originally appeared as the final section of The Passionate Pilgrim, separated by a title page mid-volume.

This collection has often been attributed to Shakespeare, but only the second composition (On a Day, Alack the Day) is clearly his, with lines that occur in Love's Labour's Lost. The fifth (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) is verse nearly universally credited to Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), and the sixth (Address to the Nightingale) to Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)

Versions of Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music include:

Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke, in A Collection of Poems (1709).
Included in The Passionate Pilgrim, facsimile of the 1599 edition, (ed.) by Sidney Lee (1905). (external scan)
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, in Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, ⁠and the Minor Poems, (ed.) by Albert Feuillerat for The Yale Shakespeare (1927). Copyrighted in the United States until 2023

See alsoEdit

The Passionate Pilgrim

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