In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on sexual themes, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In "Venus and Adonis", an innocent Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; while in "The Rape of Lucrece", the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lustful Tarquin. Influenced by Ovid's "Metamorphoses", the poems show the guilt and moral confusion that result from uncontrolled lust. Both proved popular and were often reprinted during Shakespeare's lifetime. A third narrative poem, "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor, was printed in the first edition of the "Sonnets" in 1609.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare | Poems
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how old was william shakespeare when he wrote hamlet
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Between 1589 and 1613 at the age of 49.
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He was an English playwright, poet, and actor.
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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems.
Shakespeare bibliography | Introduction
"Ubi sunt" poetry also figures in some of Shakespeare's plays. When Hamlet finds skulls in the Graveyard (V. 1), these rhetorical questions appear: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning – quite chap-fall'n.
Ubi sunt | Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor. William Shakespeare may also refer to:
William Shakespeare (disambiguation) | Introduction
William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
William Shakespeare | Introduction
Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted of ten syllables to a line, spoken with a stress on every second syllable. The blank verse of his early plays is quite different from that of his later ones. It is often beautiful, but its sentences tend to start, pause, and finish at the end of lines, with the risk of monotony. Once Shakespeare mastered traditional blank verse, he began to interrupt and vary its flow. This technique releases the new power and flexibility of the poetry in plays such as "Julius Caesar" and "Hamlet".
William Shakespeare | Style
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet. Shakespeare may also refer to:
Shakespeare (disambiguation) | Introduction
Edited by John Fuller. The poets included were: Thomas Wyatt - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - Giles Fletcher - Edmund Spenser - Walter Ralegh - Fulke Greville - Philip Sidney - Arthur Gorges - George Chapman - Henry Constable - Samuel Daniel - Michael Drayton - Joshua Sylvester - William Shakespeare - John Davies of Hereford - Thomas Campion - William Alabaster - Barnabe Barnes - John Davies - John Donne - Richard Barnfield - Lord Herbert of Cherbury - William Drummond - Mary Wroth - William Browne - George Herbert - Thomas Carew - William Habington - Edmund Waller - John Milton - Charles Cotton - Philip Ayres - Aphra Behn - Thomas Edwards - Thomas Gray - Thomas Warton - William Cowper - Anna Seward - Charlotte Turner Smith - John Bampfylde - Mary Robinson - William Lisle Bowles - Helen Maria Williams - Thomas Russell - William Wordsworth - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Mary Tighe - Robert Southey - Charles Lamb - Walter Savage Landor - Ebenezer Elliott - James Henry Leigh Hunt - George Gordon, Lord Byron - John Keble - Percy Bysshe Shelley - John Clare - George Darley - John Keats - Hartley Coleridge - Thomas Hood - William Barnes - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - John Greenleaf Whittier - Charles Tennyson Turner - Edgar Allan Poe - Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson - William Bell Scott - Robert Browning - William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Arthur Hugh Clough - Frederick Goddard Tuckerman - Matthew Arnold - William Cory - William Allingham - Sydney Dobell - George Meredith - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Christina Rossetti - Samuel Butler - John Leicester Warren - Algernon Charles Swinburne - Augusta Webster - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Thomas Hardy - Robert Buchanan - Edward Dowden - Robert Bridges - Ada Cambridge - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Louisa Sarah Bevington - Michael Field - Alice Meynell - Digby Mackworth Dolben - William Ernest Henley - Philip Bourke Marston - Robert Louis Stevenson - Oscar Wilde - Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Francis Thompson - Mary Coleridge - Laurence Hope - Rudyard Kipling - Arthur Symons - William Butler Yeats - Edwin Arlington Robinson - Robert Frost - Edward Thomas - Siegfried Sassoon - Rupert Brooke - Elizabeth Daryush - Robinson Jeffers - Edwin Muir - John Crowe Ransom - Kenneth Leslie - Archibald MacLeish - Edna St.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Sonnets" (2000)
In "The First Part of the Return from Parnassus", two separate characters refer to Shakespeare as "Sweet Mr. Shakespeare", and in "The Second Part of the Return from Parnassus" (1606), the anonymous playwright has the actor Kempe say to the actor Burbage, "Few of the university men pen plays well ... Why here's our fellow "Shakespeare" puts them all down." An edition of "The Passionate Pilgrim", expanded with an additional nine poems written by the prominent English actor, playwright, and author Thomas Heywood, was published by William Jaggard in 1612 with Shakespeare's name on the title page. Heywood protested this piracy in his "Apology for Actors" (1612), adding that the author was "much offended with M.
Shakespeare authorship question | Recognition by fellow actors, playwrights and writers
"— Last lines from William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18", published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1609 in poetry | Introduction
T. Prince - Matthew Prior - Francis Quarles - Sir Walter Ralegh - Thomas Randolph - John Crowe Ransom - James Reeves - Edwin Arlington Robinson - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - W. R. Rodgers - Theodore Roethke - Christina Rossetti - Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Samuel Rowlands - George William Russell - Thomas Rymer - Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset - Carl Sandburg - Siegfried Sassoon - Sir Walter Scott - William Shakespeare - Percy Bysshe Shelley - William Shenstone - Sir Edward Sherburne - James Shirley - Sir Philip Sidney - James Simmons - C. H. Sisson - Edith Sitwell - John Skelton - Jonathan Smedley - Stevie Smith - William Jay Smith - Robert Southey - Muriel Spark - Sir John Squire - Sir Richard Steele - James Stephens - Wallace Stevens - Anne Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson - Trumbull Stickney - William Strode - Jonathan Swift - Arthur Symons - J.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
This is a list of poems by Wilfred Owen.
List of poems by Wilfred Owen | Introduction
Several poems published anonymously have been attributed by scholars to Shakespeare. Others were attributed to him in 17th century manuscripts. None have received universal acceptance. The authorship of some poems published under Shakespeare's name in his lifetime has also been questioned.
Shakespeare apocrypha | Apocryphal poems
This article lists the complete poetic bibliography of William Wordsworth, including his juvenilia, describing his poetic output during the years 1785-1797, and any previously private and, during his lifetime, unpublished poems.
List of poems by William Wordsworth | Introduction
Poems is an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams. It was published in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1909. The name William C. Williams is used for the cover and copyright notice, and W. C. Williams for the title page. The book is printed on Old Stratford paper.
Poems (William Carlos Williams) | Introduction
K. Chesterton - Richard Church - John Ciardi - Arthur Hugh Clough - Mary Coleridge - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - William Collins - William Congreve - Frances Cornford - William Johnson Cory - Francis Coutts - William Cowper - George Crabbe - Hart Crane - Stephen Crane - Richard Crashaw - Robert Creeley - John Crowne - E. E. Cummings - J. V. Cunningham - George Daniel - Sir William Davenant - John Davies of Hereford - W. H. Davies - C. Day-Lewis - Walter De La Mare - Sir John Denham - John Warren, Lord De Tabley - Emily Dickinson - Robert Dodsley - John Donne - Ernest Dowson - William Drummond of Hawthornden - John Dryden - Alan Dugan - Sir Edward Dyer - Clifford Dyment - Richard Eberhart - T.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
385–7), others are given in the "Shakespearean Repository" (ed. James Hamilton Fennell, January 1823), in "Select Poetry" (Parker Soc. ii. 450–1), and in Corser's "Collectanea Anglo-Poetica" (xi. 432–5).
James Yates (poet) | Introduction
In 1593 and 1594, when the theatres were closed because of plague, Shakespeare published two narrative poems on sexual themes, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece". He dedicated them to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In "Venus and Adonis", an innocent Adonis rejects the sexual advances of Venus; while in "The Rape of Lucrece", the virtuous wife Lucrece is raped by the lustful Tarquin. Influenced by Ovid's "Metamorphoses", the poems show the guilt and moral confusion that result from uncontrolled lust. Both proved popular and were often reprinted during Shakespeare's lifetime. A third narrative poem, "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor, was printed in the first edition of the "Sonnets" in 1609.
William Shakespeare | Poems
It is not known who the rival poet is. Nearly every well-known poet contemporary with Shakespeare has been suggested, including George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Barnabe Barnes, Gervase Markham, and Richard Barnfield The second and third quatrains have garnered attention as possibly containing clues to the identity of the rival poet. The description of a poet "by spirits taught to write" (line 5) has led some to name George Chapman as candidate, due to Chapman's supposed spiritual inspiration by the ghost of Homer. The phrase "Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead" (line 6) has suggested to some Christopher Marlowe (who died in 1593) and his play "Tamburlaine the Great".
Sonnet 86 | Possible clues to the identity of the rival poet
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor who lived during the 17th century. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Outline of William Shakespeare | Introduction
Oxfordians think that the phrase "our ever-living Poet" (an epithet that commonly eulogised a deceased poet as having attained immortal literary fame), included in the dedication to Shakespeare's sonnets that were published in 1609, was a signal that the true poet had died by then. Oxford had died in 1604, five years earlier. Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford consists of a demi-figure effigy of him with pen in hand and an attached plaque praising his abilities as a writer. The earliest printed image of the figure, in Sir William Dugdale's "Antiquities of Warwickshire" (1656), differs greatly from its present appearance.
Shakespeare authorship question | Circumstances of Shakespeare's death
This is followed by Benson's preface "to the Reader", commendatory poems by Leonard Digges and John Warren, and then the poems themselves. The edition combined most of Shakespeare's sonnets (numbers 18, 19, 43, 56, 75, 76, and 126 are omitted), mingled with poems from "The Passionate Pilgrim" (the corrupt 1612 edition), plus "A Lover's Complaint", "The Phoenix and the Turtle", Milton's poem to Shakespeare from the Second Folio, poems by Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, Robert Herrick and others, and miscellaneous pieces.
John Benson (publisher) | Shakespeare's "Poems", 1640
Edited by Alastair Fowler. Poets included were: Henry Aldrich – Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling – Jacob Allestry – Mary Astell – William Austin – Sir Robert Ayton – William Basse – Richard Baxter – Francis Beaumont – Sir John Beaumont – Joseph Beaumont – Thomas Beedome – Aphra Behn – Edward Benlowes – Henry Bold – Anne Bradstreet – Richard Brathwait – Alexander Brome – Sir Thomas Browne – William Browne of Tavistock – John Bunyan – Robert Burton – Samuel Butler – Thomas Campian – Thomas Carew – James Carkesse – William Cartwright – Patrick Cary – Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle – William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle – John Chalkhill – William Chamberlayne – George Chapman – John Cleveland – John Collop – Richard Corbett – Charles Cotton – Abraham Cowley – Richard Crashaw – Hugh Crompton – John Cutts, Lord Cutts – Alicia D'Anvers – Thomas D'Urfey – John Dancer – George Daniel – Samuel Daniel – Sir William Davenant – Robert Davenport – Thomas Dekker – Sir John Denham – John Digby, Earl of Bristol – John Donne – Michael Drayton – William Drummond of Hawthornden – John Dryden – Richard Duke – 'Ephelia' – Sir George Etherege – Mary Evelyn – Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax – Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland – Sir Richard Fanshawe – Henry Farley – George Farquhar – Owen Feltham – Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea – Thomas Flatman – Richard Flecknoe – Giles Fletcher – John Fletcher – Phineas Fletcher – John Ford – Simon Ford – Thomas Forde – Sidney Godolphin – James Graham, Marquis of Montrose – Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke – William Habington – Henry Hall – John Hall – Henry Halswell – William Hammond – Samuel Harding – Sir John Harington – Christopher Harvey – Sir R.
Oxford period poetry anthologies | "New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse" (1991)
His last poem was written in 1630 to commemorate the birth of Charles, Prince of Wales. His Epigram 92 is an early example of Shakespeare criticism.
Thomas Freeman (poet) | Introduction
William King (1663–1712) was an English poet.
William King (poet) | Introduction
The Envoy uses allegorical nicknames in praising several Elizabethan poets, among them "Adon". This is generally accepted to be an allusion to Shakespeare as the mythical Adonis from his poem "Venus and Adonis". In the next stanzas, Edwards mentions a poet dressed "in purple robes", "whose power floweth far." Since purple is, among other things, a symbol of aristocracy, most scholars accept that he is discussing an unidentified aristocratic poet. Barrell argued that the stanzas about Adon and the anonymous aristocrat must be seen together. He stated that Edwards is revealing that Adon (Shakespeare) is really the Earl of Oxford, forced by the Queen to use a pseudonym.
History of the Shakespeare authorship question | Alleged early doubts
M. Synge - Nahum Tate - Alfred, Lord Tennyson - A. S. J. Tessimond - Dylan Thomas - Edward Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Francis Thompson - Henry Thoreau - Thomas Traherne - George Turbervile - John Updike - Mark Van Doren - Henry Vaughan - Edmund Waller - William Walsh - Vernon Watkins - Samuel Wesley - Walt Whitman - John Greenleaf Whittier - Anna Wickham - John Wigson - Richard Wilbur - Oscar Wilde - William Carlos Williams - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea - William Wordsworth - Judith Wright - Sir Thomas Wyatt - Elinor Wylie - W.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
(The disputed miscellany "The Passionate Pilgrim" was only printed in octavo: twice in 1599, with another in 1612, all by William Jaggard.)
Early texts of Shakespeare's works | Poetry
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William Smith (poet) | Works
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Oxford period poetry anthologies | "New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse" (1991)
He discerned close affinities between the poetry of Oxford and that of Shakespeare in the use of motifs and subjects, phrasing, and rhetorical devices, which led him to identify Oxford as the author. After his "Shakespeare Identified" was published in 1920, Oxford replaced Bacon as the most popular alternative candidate.
Shakespeare authorship question | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Stanley was Barnfield's patron and the subject of his homoerotic sonnet cycle "The Affectionate Shepherd", which implied a romantic relationship between the pair.
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby | Shakespearean authorship question
Variations on Barrell's argument have been repeated by Diana Price and Roger Stritmatter. Brenda James and William D. Rubinstein argues that the same passage points to Sir Henry Neville. Mainstream scholars assert that Edwards is discussing two separate poets, and it has also been suggested that (as in the final stanzas of "Venus and Adonis") the purple refers to blood, with which his garments are "distain'd", and that the poet could be Robert Southwell, under torture in the Tower of London.
History of the Shakespeare authorship question | Alleged early doubts
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Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Sonnets" (2000)
Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include several works which were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as "The Two Noble Kinsmen", which was a collaboration with John Fletcher; "Pericles, Prince of Tyre", the first two acts of which were likely written by George Wilkins; or "Edward III", whose authorship is disputed.
Complete Works of Shakespeare | Introduction
Lists of verbal correspondences between Marlowe's and Shakespeare's work have also been compiled.
Shakespeare authorship question | Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare's sonnets are cited as evidence of his bisexuality. The poems were initially published, perhaps without his approval, in 1609. 126 of them appear to be love poems addressed to a young man known as the 'Fair Lord' or 'Fair Youth'; this is often assumed to be the same person as the 'Mr W.H.' to whom the sonnets are dedicated. The identity of this figure (if he is indeed based on a real person) is unclear; the most popular candidates are Shakespeare's patrons, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, both of whom were considered handsome in their youth.
Sexuality of William Shakespeare | Possible attraction to men
S. Merwin - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - James Michie - Thomas Middleton - Edna St. Vincent Millay - John Milton - Adrian Mitchell - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose - Marianne Moore - Thomas Moore - Thomas Nashe - Howard Nemerov - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle - William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle - Norman Nicholson - Dudley, Lord North - Wilfred Owen - Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford - Philip Pain - Coventry Patmore - William Pattison - Thomas Love Peacock - George Peele - Katherine Philips - Eden Phillpotts - Sylvia Plath - Alexander Pope - Ezra Pound - F.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
Southampton was also known for his good looks. The following is a list of other possibilities that have been suggested:
Shakespeare's sonnets | Mr. W. H., the dedicatee
Most scholars now accept that Shakespeare wrote "A Lover's Complaint". Critics consider that its fine qualities are marred by leaden effects. "The Phoenix and the Turtle", printed in Robert Chester's 1601 "Love's Martyr", mourns the deaths of the legendary phoenix and his lover, the faithful turtle dove. In 1599, two early drafts of sonnets 138 and 144 appeared in "The Passionate Pilgrim", published under Shakespeare's name but without his permission.
William Shakespeare | Poems
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Oxford period poetry anthologies | "New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse" (1984)
This is a list of poems by William McGonagall that have been published in book form, either during the poet's life or subsequently. A number of others only appeared in broadsheets or in local newspapers and do not appear in this list.
List of William McGonagall poems | Introduction
It remains unclear if these figures represent real individuals, or if the authorial "I" who addresses them represents Shakespeare himself, though Wordsworth believed that with the sonnets "Shakespeare unlocked his heart". The 1609 edition was dedicated to a "Mr. W.H.", credited as "the only begetter" of the poems. It is not known whether this was written by Shakespeare himself or by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, whose initials appear at the foot of the dedication page; nor is it known who Mr. W.H. was, despite numerous theories, or whether Shakespeare even authorised the publication. Critics praise the "Sonnets" as a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion, procreation, death, and time.
William Shakespeare | Sonnets
John Finnis and Patrick Martin have argued more recently that Catholic martyr Anne Line is the eponymous phoenix of "The Phoenix and the Turtle" and her husband Roger is the eponymous turtle. They believe, with Asquith, that the poem's "bird of loudest lay" represents the composer William Byrd and that the crow is the Jesuit Henry Garnet.
Religious views of William Shakespeare | Textual evidence
They interpret contemporary satirical characters as broad hints indicating that the London theatrical world knew Shakespeare was a front for an anonymous author. For instance, they identify Shakespeare with the literary thief Poet-Ape in Ben Jonson's poem of the same name, the socially ambitious fool Sogliardo in Jonson's "Every Man Out of His Humour", and the foolish poetry-lover Gullio in the university play "The Return from Parnassus" (performed c. 1601). Similarly, praises of "Shakespeare" the writer, such as those found in the First Folio, are explained as references to the real author's pen-name, not the man from Stratford.
Shakespeare authorship question | Lack of documentary evidence
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William Smith (poet) | Attributions
The historical record is unequivocal in ascribing the authorship of the Shakespeare canon to a William Shakespeare. In addition to the name appearing on the title pages of poems and plays, this name was given as that of a well-known writer at least 23 times during the lifetime of William Shakespeare of Stratford. Several contemporaries corroborate the identity of the playwright as an actor, and explicit contemporary documentary evidence attests that the Stratford citizen was also an actor under his own name. In 1598, Francis Meres named Shakespeare as a playwright and poet in his "Palladis Tamia", referring to him as one of the authors by whom the "English tongue is mightily enriched".
Shakespeare authorship question | Historical evidence
Some suggest he may be George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Barnabe Barnes, Gervase Markham, or Richard Barnfield.
Sonnet 78 | Rival Poet
This is a list of translations of works by William Shakespeare.
List of translations of works by William Shakespeare | Introduction
She asserted that there were numerous distinctively Irish idioms in Shakespeare's work.
History of the Shakespeare authorship question | Non-English candidates
The Shakespeare apocrypha is a group of plays and poems that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons. The issue is separate from the debate on Shakespearean authorship, which addresses the authorship of the works traditionally attributed to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare apocrypha | Introduction
D. Hope - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Ted Hughes - T. E. Hulme - Randall Jarrell - Robinson Jeffers - Elizabeth Jennings - Esther Johnson - Sir William Jones - Ben Jonson - Patrick Kavanagh - P. J. Kavanagh - John Keats - X. J. Kennedy - Henry King - Galway Kinnell - Rudyard Kipling - Mary Lamb - Walter Savage Landor - George Granville, Lord Landsdowne - Philip Larkin - D. H. Lawrence - Laurie Lee - Vachel Lindsay - Richard Lovelace - James Russell Lowell - Robert Lowell - Robert Bulwer-Lytton - Norman MacCaig - Hugh MacDiarmid - Patrick MacDonogh - Phyllis McGinley - Louis MacNeice - Derek Mahon - Edward May - Herman Melville - William Meredith - James Merrill - W.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
John Taylor was the first poet to mention in print the deaths of Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont in his 1620 book of poems "The Praise of Hemp-seed". Both had died four years earlier, less than two months apart. Ben Jonson wrote a short poem "To the Reader" commending the First Folio engraving of Shakespeare by Droeshout as a good likeness. Included in the prefatory commendatory verses was Jonson's lengthy eulogy "To the memory of my beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us" in which he identifies Shakespeare as a playwright, a poet, and an actor, and writes:
Shakespeare authorship question | Shakespeare's death—the historical perspective
Shakespeare is an English family name most commonly associated with William Shakespeare (1564–1616), an English playwright and poet. Other notable people with the surname include:
Shakespeare (surname) | Introduction
William Preston (1753 – 2 February 1807) was an Irish poet, playwright and essayist.
William Preston (poet) | Introduction
Edited by James Michie and P. J. Kavanagh. Poets included were: Henry Aldrich - William Allingham - Drummond Allison - John Amner - Matthew Arnold - W. H. Auden - Philip Ayres - William Baldwin - George Barker - Jane Barker - Clement Barksdale - Richard Barnfield - Thomas Bastard - Francis Beaumont - Samuel Beckett - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Thomas Beedome - Hilaire Belloc - Sir William Berkeley - John Berryman - John Betjeman - Elizabeth Bishop - Thomas Blackburn - William Blake - Edmund Blunden - Francis William Bourdillon - Anne Bradstreet - Robert Bridges - John Digby, Earl of Bristol - Emily Brontë - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - John Bunyan - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Norman Campbell - Roy Campbell - Thomas Campion - Thomas Carew - George Chapman - Thomas Chatterton - Geoffrey Chaucer - G.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
Since the early 1920s, the leading alternative authorship candidate has been Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Oxford followed his grandfather and father in sponsoring companies of actors, and he had patronised a company of musicians and one of tumblers. Oxford was an important courtier poet, praised as such and as a playwright by George Puttenham and Francis Meres, who included him in a list of the "best for comedy amongst us". Examples of his poetry but none of his theatrical works survive. Oxford was noted for his literary and theatrical patronage. Between 1564 and 1599, 33 works were dedicated to him, including works by Arthur Golding, John Lyly, Robert Greene and Anthony Munday.
Shakespeare authorship question | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
S. Eliot - Ralph Waldo Emerson - William Empson - D. J. Enright - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - Sir George Etherege - Gavin Ewart - Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland - Sir Richard Fanshawe - Robert Fitzgerald - Thomas Fitzgerald - Thomas Flatman - James Elroy Flecker - Richard Flecknoe - John Fletcher - Phineas Fletcher - Ford Madox Ford - John Ford - Robert Francis - John Freeman - Robert Frost - Roy Fuller - John Gay - Oliver Goldsmith - Robert Graves - Thomas Gray - Fulke Greville - Ivor Gurney - John Hall - Thomas Hardy - Sir John Harington - Seamus Heaney - Robert Heath - Anthony Hecht - Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury - George Herbert - Robert Herrick - Thomas Heywood - Aaron Hill - Ralph Hodgson - A.
Oxford poetry anthologies | "Oxford Book of Short Poems" (1985)
William Vallans (fl. 1578–1590) was an English poet.
William Vallans | Introduction
A final sonnet, hitherto unpublished, accompanied a late reminiscence of Newton. Dated October 1822, when he was nearing his 72nd birthday, the poem is a mellow piece that draws together an evening scene and anticipation of retirement.
William Newton (poet) | Poetry
Lodowick reads:
Shakespeare's sonnets | "Edward III"
Richard Barnfield (baptized 29 June 1574 – 1620) was an English poet. His obscure though close relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the "rival poet" mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Richard Barnfield | Introduction
The volume included the following poems, listed in the order they were included in the volume:
Poems (Wilfred Owen) | Poems
"See also 1612 in poetry" The November 6, 1612 death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, at age 18, occasions these poems:
1613 in poetry | On the death of <a href="Henry%20Frederick%2C%20Prince%20of%20Wales">Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales</a> in 1612
William Harrison (1685–1713) was an English poet and diplomat.
William Harrison (poet) | Introduction
The explorations of love found in the sonnets of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience.
English poetry | Courtly poetry
It is believed that William Shakespeare was influenced by the fragmented poem, incorporating elements in various ways throughout his works.
Eussouis | Significance
Sonnet 132 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 132 | Introduction
In his surviving signatures William Shakespeare did not spell his name as it appears on most Shakespeare title pages. His surname was spelled inconsistently in both literary and non-literary documents, with the most variation observed in those that were written by hand. This is taken as evidence that he was not the same person who wrote the works, and that the name was used as a pseudonym for the true author. Shakespeare's surname was hyphenated as "Shake-speare" or "Shak-spear" on the title pages of 15 of the 32 individual quarto (or "Q") editions of Shakespeare's plays and in two of the five editions of poetry published before the First Folio.
Shakespeare authorship question | Name as a pseudonym
Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. It contains many notable poems, including:
Poems, in Two Volumes | Introduction
Shakespeare's poems were also printed in quarto or octavo form: Differing from the quartos of the plays, the first editions of Shakespeare's narrative poems are extremely well printed. "Richard Field, Shakespeare's first publisher and printer, was a Stratford man, probably a friend of Shakespeare, and the two produced an excellent text." Shakespeare may have had direct involvement in the publication of the two poems, as Ben Jonson exercised in reference to the publication of his works, but as Shakespeare clearly did not do in connection with his plays. John Benson published a collected edition of Shakespeare's "Poems" in 1640; the poems were not added to collections of the plays until the 18th century.
Early texts of Shakespeare's works | Poetry
William Habington (November 4, 1605 – November 30, 1654) was an English poet.
William Habington | Introduction
Lascelles Abercrombie - J. Redwood Anderson - W. H. Auden - George Barker - Julian Bell - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - Cicely Boas - Guy Boas - Lilian Bowes Lyon - A. C. Boyd - Robert Bridges - Hilton Brown - Roy Campbell - G. M. Cookson - Frances Cornford - W. H. Davies - Cecil Day-Lewis - Walter De la Mare - John Drinkwater - Clifford Dyment - Richard Eberhart - Robin Flower - John Freeman - John Gawsworth - Wilfrid Gibson - Lord Gorell - C. L. Graves - I. Sutherland Groom - Thomas Hardy - Phyllis Hartnoll - Christopher Hassall - A.
Poems of Today | "Poems of Today" (1938, third series)
English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets and the school of Spenser. However, the boundaries between these three groups are not always clear and an individual poet could write in more than one manner. Shakespeare also popularized the English sonnet, which made significant changes to Petrarch's model. A collection of 154 sonnets by Shakespeare, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality, were first published in a 1609 quarto. John Milton (1608–74) is considered one of the greatest English poets, and wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval.
English poetry | Jacobean and Caroline poetry: 1603–1660
Here appears what seems to be the absolutely earliest praise of Shakespeare in a piece entitled "A Remembrance of some English Poets", in which the still unrecognized author of "Venus and Adonis" is celebrated by the side of Spenser, Daniel and Drayton. Here also are the sonnet, "If Music and sweet Poetrie agree", and the ode beginning "As it fell upon a day", which were once attributed to Shakespeare himself.
Richard Barnfield | Publications
William of Shoreham (fourteenth century) was an English poet. Little is known of his life, but he probably lived in Shoreham, Kent and was vicar of Chart (near Leeds, Kent). Seven poems in English are attributed to him, all contained in a single manuscript now in the British Library (Additional Manuscripts No. 17376). Four of the poems are didactic and address points of Christian doctrine, the other three are in praise of the Virgin Mary (one of them a translation from Robert Grosseteste's Latin). He was once thought to be the author of an English psalter, but this is now considered spurious.
William of Shoreham | Introduction
While he is confident that his poetry will outlast marble and monument, it will immortalize his young friend, not himself. He says that his style is so distinctive and unchanging that 'every word doth almost tell my name,' implying that his name is otherwise concealed – at a time when he is publishing long poems under the name William Shakespeare. This seems to mean that he is not writing these Sonnets under that (hidden) name." Oxfordians have interpreted the phrase "every word" as a pun on the word "every", standing for "e vere" – thus telling his name. Mainstream writers respond that several sonnets literally do tell his name, containing numerous puns on the name Will[iam]; in sonnet 136 the poet directly says "thou lov'st me for my name is Will."
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship | Lost fame
Sonnet 136 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 136 | Introduction
His own literary works are lost or unidentified, but in the 1890s he was put forward as one of the contenders to be the true author of the works of William Shakespeare, according to some proponents of the Shakespeare authorship question.
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby | Introduction
Sonnet 139 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 139 | Introduction
William Haughton (died 1605) was an English playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre.
William Haughton (playwright) | Introduction
Known plays by Haughton, either singly or in conjunction with others, include:
William Haughton (playwright) | Known works
It is also not known why Shakespeare and so many other distinguished poets supplemented the publication of such an obscure person with their own works.
Robert Chester (poet) | Introduction
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The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950 | Poets in "The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950"
Harrison's major poem was "Woodstock Park" (1706); It was printed in Robert Dodsley's "Collection". The third ode of Horace, imitated by him as "To the Yacht which carried the Duke of Marlborough to Holland, 1707", is included in William Duncombe's "Horace", and several of his poetical pieces are inserted in Steele's "Poetical Miscellanies", 1714. Most of his poems, except "Woodstock Park", were reprinted in John Nichols's "Collection". The "Tatler" which he edited in 1711 was reprinted in duodecimo in 1712 and subsequent years as Steele's "Tatler", vol. v. Some of the essays are reprinted in Nichols's edition of the "Tatler", vol.
William Harrison (poet) | Works
In his own lifetime, Shakespeare saw only about half of his plays enter print. Some individual plays were published in quarto, a small, cheap format. Then, in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, his fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell compiled a folio collection of his complete plays, now known as the First Folio. Heminges and Condell were in a position to do this because they, like Shakespeare, worked for the King's Men, the London playing company that produced all of Shakespeare's plays. In addition to plays, poems were published under Shakespeare's name. The collection published as "The Passionate Pilgrim" contains genuine poems by Shakespeare along with poems known to have been written by other authors, along with some of unknown authorship.
Shakespeare apocrypha | Background
Sonnet 137 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 137 | Introduction
He was the author of a "Heroick Poem upon the King", 1694, and a "Poem to the Lady Duty", and "Poem to the Rev. John Brandreth", in "Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by several Hands", published by Richard Savage, son of Earl Rivers, 1726.
William Colepeper | Works
The leading candidate of the 19th century was one of the great intellectual figures of Jacobean England, Sir Francis Bacon, a lawyer, philosopher, essayist and scientist. Bacon's candidacy relies upon historical and literary conjectures, as well as alleged cryptographic evidence. Bacon was proposed as sole author by William Henry Smith in 1856 and as a co-author by Delia Bacon in 1857. Smith compared passages such as Bacon's "Poetry is nothing else but feigned history" with Shakespeare's "The truest poetry is the most feigning" ("As You Like It", 3.3.19–20), and Bacon's "He wished him not to shut the gate of your Majesty's mercy" with Shakespeare's "The gates of mercy shall be all shut up" ("Henry V", 3.3.10).
Shakespeare authorship question | Sir Francis Bacon
List of poems by John Keats.
List of poems by John Keats | Introduction
When Derby released his estates to his son James around 1628–29, he named Pembroke and Montgomery as trustees. Derby's older brother, Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, formed a group of players, the Lord Strange's Men, some of whose members eventually joined the King's Men, one of the companies most associated with Shakespeare.
Shakespeare authorship question | William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
Sonnet 142 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 142 | Introduction
William Hampton (born 1959 in Salford, Lancashire) is a British poet.
William Hampton (poet) | Introduction
A. E. - Lascelles Abercrombie - H. C. Beeching - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - W. S. Blunt - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - William Canton - P. R. Chalmers - G. K. Chesterton - Mary E. Coleridge - Padraic Colum - Frances Cornford - A. S. Cripps - John Davidson - W. H. Davies - Walter De la Mare - John Drinkwater - J. E. Flecker - Edmund Gosse - Gerald Gould - Ralph Hodgson - Laurence Housman - Lionel Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - Shane Leslie - Rose Macaulay - J. W. Mackail - John Masefield - George Meredith - Alice Meynell - T.
Poems of Today | "Poems of Today" (1915, first series)
S. Eliot - William Empson - Richard Fanshawe - Edward Fitzgerald - James Elroy Flecker - Giles Fletcher - Phineas Fletcher - John Ford - Roy Fuller - George Gascoigne - John Gay - Sidney Godolphin - Oliver Goldsmith - James Graham - Robert Graves - Thomas Gray - Robert Greene - Fulke Greville - William Habington - Thomas Hardy - William Ernest Henley - George Herbert - Lord Herbert of Cherbury - Robert Herrick - Ralph Hodgson - Thomas Hood - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - James Leigh Hunt - Lionel Johnson - Samuel Johnson - Ben Jonson - Thomas Jordan - James Joyce - John Keats - Henry King - Rudyard Kipling - Francis Kynaston - Charles Lamb - Walter Savage Landor - William Langland - D.
The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950 | Poets in "The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950"
Unattributed poems have also been assigned by some scholars to Shakespeare at various times. See below. The apocrypha can be categorized under the following headings.
Shakespeare apocrypha | Background
In verse were: commemorative poems on Shakespeare in 1859 and 1864; "The Drama of a Life" (in 5 scenes) and "Aspiranda" (1852); "The King and the Commoner", a historical play (Birmingham, 1870); and "A Life for Love, and other Poems" (Birmingham, 1900).
John Alfred Langford | Works
William Colepeper (died 1726) was an English poet and politician.
William Colepeper | Introduction
John William Richmond Shakespeare , is a retired British diplomat.
John William Richmond Shakespeare | Introduction
instead of "W.S", so that the identity of her lost love should remain mysterious. "W.H" was preferred because it was the initials of both her own surname and Hathaway's, implying that Shakespeare was, in a sense, both their husbands: Mr W and Mr H. According to Ross, "the initials therefore represent all three, and no better selection was possible". She gave him the full collection when he left for London, which explains the dedication to the "well-wishing adventurer in setting forth". She later wrote "The Phoenix and the Turtle" to commemorate their spiritual union. Ross emphasises that his discovery removes all suggestion of homoeroticism from the sonnets, and thus "the taint of perversion, so odious to all lovers of Shakespeare, has been dissipated".
Anne Whateley | Authorship speculations
Many English-language Modernist poets drew on Shakespeare's works, interpreting in new ways. Ezra Pound, for instance, considered the Sonnets as a kind of apprentice work, with Shakespeare learning the art of poetry through writing them. He also declared the History plays to be the true English epic. Basil Bunting rewrote the sonnets as modernist poems by simply erasing all the words he considered unnecessary. Louis Zukofsky had read all of Shakespeare's works by the time he was eleven, and his "Bottom: On Shakespeare" (1947) is a book-length prose poem exploring the role of the eye in the plays. In its original printing, a second volume consisting of a setting of "The Tempest" by the poet's wife, Celia Zukofsky was also included.
Reputation of William Shakespeare | Poetry