Roger Stritmatter - 'He That Takes the Pain to Pen the Book': The Poetry of the 17th Earl of Oxford

[@tensforme]

Wow that was an excellent presentation, really enjoyed it! Looks like still a lot of research to be done and treasures to be found!

[@geiruthaug]

Ground-breaking scholarship which will have a huge impact.

[@DorothyJanetoo]

Always so impressed by your scholarship!

[@scotty]

VERY good

[@rstritmatter]

Thanks, Scotty.

[@rstritmatter]

Hundredth Sundry Flowres is 1573, not 1575.

[@hasltisl]

It’s both. The original is 1573, the rewrite to obscure the original, 1575.

[@MrMartibobs]

MASSIVE assumption. Yes the two pieces (Ignoto poem and Richard III) share a couple of words. Other than that they are very different. The Ignoto poem is stylistically naive - the 'ay me' repetition, for example, is there for padding and to provide a lame rhyme for 'foppery'. Ignoto doesn't seem to have the creative gumption that goes into 'amorous looking-glass'. It's much, much more literal.

[@chancecolbert7249]

11:04 Sidney and a number of other writers used anadiploses (see Astrophil Sonnet 1). Kind of a weak parallel passage. Honestly, the best proof against Oxford is his own poetry. Surely we've lost a lot, but what we have is nearly "un-shakespearean."