V.G.S. Oxfordian Shakespeare Poetry Page

I. Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 1. November 5, 2023. 'Those who have followed my work on Shakespeare's Sonnets know that I do not consider all 17 of the “Procreation Sonnets” to be to the same person.'

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Four Key Versions of Sonnet 2. May 9, 2024. "When fortie Winters shall beseige thy brow,..."

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 11. November 12, 2023. 'Sonnet 11 uses the adjective “barren” to describe the love object’s ultimate fate...'

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 33. Edward de Vere's Memorial For His Son. July 5, 2024. “The region cloude hath masked him from me now.”

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 42. Edward de Vere writes a sonnet to Shakespeare. January 13, 2024. “But here’s the joy, my friend and I are one, ...”

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 74. November 27, 2023. “The coward conquest of a wretch's knife”

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 107. “The mortall Moone hath her eclipse indur'de” March 22, 2024. The childless Queen Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603. Shakespeare and all of England breathed a sigh of relief when no civil war followed.

• The Sonnets of Shakespeare: Sonnet 108. Edward de Vere to his son, Henry. “That may expresse my love, or thy deare merit?”
• Dating Edward de Vere's Sonnet 110. May 21, 2018. “Shake-speare the poet was now Shake-speare writer for the common stage.  Those who knew he was The Bard, but only knew him as the poet, now knew that he was the person who had written the plays,…”
• Dating Edward de Vere’s Sonnet 110 + 1.  May 28, 2018.  “By 1589, the lands of the Earldom of Oxford had been put under the control of De Vere’s father-in-law William Cecil, the Queen’s Treasurer and closest advisor, in order to save them from being sold by the deeply indebted Earl for ready money.”
• Sonnet 130: Shakespeare's Reply to a 1580 Poem by Thomas Watson. September 7, 2024. “Interesting to see our Derek Hunter debating with Dennis McCarthy, at the North group,...”.

II. Sonnets in Shakespeare's plays.

III. Shakespeare Sonnets as Si fortunatus infoelix

• Two Shakespeare Contributions toward An Hundredth Sundrie Flowers (1573). October 24, 2021. “The entirely end-stopped lines identify the style of the young Shake-speare, it’s true,…”

V. Possible Shakespeare Poems.

VI. General

• Invention in a Noted Weed: the Poetry of William Shakespeare. September 21, 2024. “The coward conquest of a wretches knife,...”

• Shakespeare's sugred Sonnets among his private friends. May 19, 2024. “Why are there no surviving manuscript copies before the early years of the 17^th century?”

• Steven May and Shakespeare in Transition. August 24, 2023. “...on the topic of a purported lack of transitional works to show the young Oxford ever wrote more mature poems.”

• Discovered: A New Shakespeare Sonnet: the Experience.  May 11, 2015.  "I was hot on the trail of something, it appeared, but I barely knew what until I was on top of it and then it just seemed impossible that the very best I could hope for had somehow actually come to pass."