...Josephson Junction Analog Simulators 569 References 575 Author Index 576 Subject Index 598 PREFACE Why with the time do I not glance aside To new-found methods and to compounds strange? Shakespeare Sonnet 76 This book gives a detailed description of the statics, dynamics, and statistics...

...own rhetorical invention, its inability to overgo itself and thereby overgo his imitators and rivals: 'Why is my verse so barren of new pride, / So far from variation and quick change?' (76.1-2). In these sonnets, Shakespeare comes up against the paradox of a selfsuperseding...

...encrypted within the poetic structure? It is, first of all, a project encouraged by the sonnets themselves: "Every word doth almost tell my name, / Showing their birth, and where they did proceed." Such an interpretation understands its object to be a puzzle, a surface on which coded information...

...or to become centered in a personal style and risk seeming arrogant or, worse, lacking in invention: Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from...name, Showing their birth, and where they did proceed? The conceitful answer to these questions is that the speaker's "argument" is the Young Man's unchanging...

...must from you he too\. Thus so I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away. LXXVI Why is my verse so barren of new pride? So far from variation or quic\ change? Why with the time do I not glance aside To new found methods, and to compounds strange?...

...or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away. Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from...aside To new-found methods and to compounds strange? 5 Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth...

...Shakespeare claims to use a familiar language. Unlike Sidney, he is so identified with his language that "every word doth almost tell my name / Showing their birth, and where they did proceed" (7-8); that is, his words are not of uncertain origin or "foreign" to him. Not only can he "name" his...

...these innovations to the vagaries of fashion and a taste for ostentation that he himself has eschewed: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? So far from variation and quick change? Why with the time do I not glance aside To new-found methods and to compounds strange?...

...subject, even though the tone of lines acknowledging dependence is often positive, as in Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from...new-found methods and to compounds strange? Why write 1 still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed, That every word doth almost tell...

...that focuses on encrypted proper names is, first of all, a project encouraged by the poems themselves: "Every word doth almost tell my name, / Showing their birth, and where they did proceed" (Sonnet 76). Such an interpretation understands its object to be a puzzle, a surface on which coded...