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- THE ONLIE BEGETTER = Mr. W. H. (Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton) the only one who inspires and “gives birth to” these sonnets, all 154 of them: “Yet be most proud of that which I compile,/ Whose influence is thine, and borne of thee” – Sonnet 78; “Since all alike my songs and praises be/ To one, of one, still such, and ever so” – Sonnet 105
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Many scholars have assumed that the word ‘begetter’ means ‘inspirer’, and that the dedication refers to the ‘Fair Youth’ to whom many of the sonnets are addressed (it isn’t as widely known as it should be that ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? ’, perhaps the most famous romantic line in all of English literature, is addressed by the male...
Dec 28, 2009 · THE ONLIE BEGETTER = Mr. W. H. (Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton) the only one who inspires and “gives birth to” these sonnets, all 154 of them: “Yet be most proud of that which I compile,/ Whose influence is thine, and borne of thee” – Sonnet 78; “Since all alike my songs and praises be/ To one, of one, still such, and ...
The ciphers themselves are discussed in depth in the author’s paper, “The Dedication to Shakespeare’s Sonnets ,” published in The Elizabethan Review, volume 5, number 2, Autumn 1997. Part I of this paper, “Mr. W.H. Revealed at Last,” was the subject of an article by the Science Editor of The Times, December 31st 1997.
Feb 2, 2015 · Using clues from the text and historical documents, researcher Geoffrey Caveney has recently presented a new theory on just who this “Mr. WH” could have been: a friend and a fellow publisher of...
Sonnets: Dedication. This enigmatic dedication, probably added without Shakespeare’s knowledge, has been the source of much speculation and confusion. ’T.T.‘ is the printer Thomas Thorpe ...
speare’s poems, four sonnets, and a song, and others by other writers, but ascribed to Shakespeare, were published by William Jaggard in three editions of The Passionate Pilgrim (two in 1599, one in 1612), all “pirated” publications (Prince xxi–xxiii). This array of facts confirms that the Dedication of the Sonnets was consis-
The primary source of Shakespeare's sonnets is a quarto published in 1609 titled Shake-speare's Sonnets. It contains 154 sonnets, which are followed by the long poem "A Lover's Complaint". Thirteen copies of the quarto have survived in fairly good shape.
