On the Sonnets of Shakespeare, Identifying the Person to Whom They Are Addressed; And Elucidating Several Points in the Poet's History
On the Sonnets of Shakespeare, Identifying the Person to Whom They Are Addressed; And Elucidating Several Points in the Poet's History
James Boaden
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When he had determined upon the " graver labour" which was to follow his Venus and Adonis, published in 1593, he cast the Rape of Lucrece in the Stanza of Daniel's Rosa- mond, consisting of seven lines ; whereas his first pro- duction was limited to six. Shakespeare appears also in his second work, to have been during a considerable portion of it, infected by the almost prosaic plainness of Daniel. The Fair Rosamond, in enjoining her poet^ his task, invests herself with the prescience, (or shal...l I call it historical knowledge?) of times subsequent to her own ; and talks as familiarly of Jane Shore, as if the * Perhaps this term for Daniel may be questionable, for Michael Drayton, (not im ordinary Poet, as Warburton styled him, but) an admirable writer with a purer taste than Daniel, has composed a legend of fair Rosamond ; and in his heroical Epistles has also honoured the pleasant Mistress Shore and her Royal lover^ by framing two letters for them, which it may be no profanation to say exceed infinitely the amatorial effusions of the fifteenth century.
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