The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.0678  Wednesday, 6 March 2002

[1]     From:   Charles Whitney <
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        Date:   Tuesday 5 Mar 2002 10:19:08 -0800 (PST)
        Subj:   Re: SHK 13.0644 Doesn't Anyone Have Any Ideas?

[2]     From:   Roger D. Gross <
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        Date:   Tuesday 5 Mar 2002 13:24:37 -0600
        Subj:   Re: SHK 13.0644 Doesn't Anyone Have Any Ideas?


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From:           Charles Whitney <
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Date:           Tuesday 5 Mar 2002 10:19:08 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 13.0644 Doesn't Anyone Have Any Ideas?
Comment:        Re: SHK 13.0644 Doesn't Anyone Have Any Ideas?

That poem never did much for me, but I'm open to instruction.  There are
three new dedicatory verses in the Second Folio--Milton's, the long
interesting one labeled "I.M.S." and the effigies one you mention.  For
Douglas Lanier they all seek to recover a sense of the living person
Shakespeare.  See "Encrytpions," _Reading and Writing in Shakespeare_,
ed David Bergeron, Associated University Presses, 1996.  I do not know
of any attributions of "Upon the Effigies," but "I.M.S.", if that refers
to a name, may have been Jasper Mayne.

Regards,
Charles

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From:           Roger D. Gross <
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Date:           Tuesday 5 Mar 2002 13:24:37 -0600
Subject: 13.0644 Doesn't Anyone Have Any Ideas?
Comment:        Re: SHK 13.0644 Doesn't Anyone Have Any Ideas?

> A few weeks back you kindly posted my inquiry about the Second Folio:
> did anyone know any attributions to the new dedicatory verses in the
> 1632 ed? (the 'Effigies' poem, NOT the Milton).
>
> To my amazement, there have been no takers on or off line: is it such a
> boring little poem that no-one ever thought about it before?  Or am I
> missing something so obvious that everyone out there knows but me?
>
> Does anyone know ANYTHING about it?

Re. poem in Second Folio, "Shakespeare, an Illustrated Dictionary" has
this:

Milton, John...English poet; his first published poem was his sonnet 'An
Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare', printed
anonymously in the Second Folio* (1632)".

Roger Gross
U. of Arkansas

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