Here are some bibliography references for the sonnets

Sonnets

Auden, W. H.  "Introduction."  Shakespeare: The Sonnets.  New York: Signet Classics, 1988. xvii-xxxix.

Barnet, Sylvan.  "Prefatory Remarks."  Shakespeare: The Sonnets.  New York: Signet Classics, 1988.  vii-xvi.

Bevington, Craig.  "Sonnets."  Compete Works of Shakespeare.  1612-16.

Booth, Stephen.  An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1969.

Combellack, C. R. B.  "Shakespeare's Sonnet 116." Explicator 41.1 (Fall 1982): 12-14. 

Cruttwell, Patrick.  “Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the 1590’s.”  Modern.  110-140.

Dubrow, Heather.  Captive Visitors: Shakespeare's Narrative Poems and Sonnets.  Ithica: Cornell Univ. Press, 1987.

Ferry, Anne Davidson.  The "Inward" Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakepseare, Donne.  Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983.

Finneman, Joel.  Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.

Fontana, Ernest.  "Shakespeare's Sonnet 55." Explicator 45.3 (Spring 1987): 6-8.

Harrison, James.  "Shakespeare's Sonnet 129." Explicator 47.4 (Summer 1989): 6-7. 

Herrnstein, Barbara, ed.  Discussions of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  New York, 1964.

Howell, Mark.  "Shakespeare's Sonnet 18." Explicator 40.3 (Spring 1982): 12.

Hubler, Edward.  The Sense of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.

Hubler, Edward, et al.  The Riddle of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  New York: Basic Books, 1962.

Ingram, W. G., and Theodore Redpath, eds. Shakespeare's Sonnets.  3rd impression.  London: Hodder and stoughton, 1978.

Krieger, Murray.  A Window to Criticism:  Shakespeare's Sonnets and Modern Poetics.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Landry, Hilton.  Interpretations of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Leishman, J. B. Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets.  London: 1961.

McRae, William.  "Shakespeare's Sonnet 29." Explicator 46.1 (Fall 1987): 6-8.

Muir, Kenneth.  Shakespeare's Sonnets.  London:  Allen and Unwin, 1979.

Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. Shakespeare Survey 15.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

Robertson, J. M.  The Problems of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  London: 1926.

Rollins, Hyder, E., ed.  A new Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: the Sonnets.  2 vols.  London, 1944.

Rouse, A. L. Shakespeare's Sonnets.  New York: 1964.

Seymour-Smith, Martin, ed.   Shakespeare's Sonnets.  London:  William Heinemann.

Watson, Thomas Ramey.  "Shakespeare's Sonnet 29." Explicator 45.1 (Fall 1986): 12-13. 

Willen, Gerald, and Victor B. Reed.  A Casebook on Shakespeare's Sonnets.  New York, 1964.

Wilson, J. Dover.  An Introduction to the Sonnets of Shakespeare.  New York: 1964.

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