All happiness and that eternity promised by our ever-living poet wisheth the well-wishing adventurer in setting forth. TT [Thorpe]. Candidates have included Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, a noted patron, and William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, with whom Shakespeare is believed to have had some link. Who is 'Mr WH'? Puzzle 'solved' after centuries. Mail Online. That could also help explain punning references to the name 'Will', it was claimed.
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Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? Don't have an account? Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Search within As we have seen, the Venus and Adonis and the Lucrece were both dedicated to him, and tradition says that he was a generous patron of the poet. This lost him the favour of the Queen and involved him in serious troubles.
In he secretly married Elizabeth Vernon. On account of his connection with the rebellion of Essex he was condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. He was pardoned in when James came to the throne, and the th Sonnet is supposed by Mr. Gerald Massey to be Shakespeare's congratulation upon his release from prison and restoration to royal favour.
The initials in "Mr. If the Sonnets were addressed to him, the first seventeen could hardly have been written at this time which is earlier than any date assumed for the poems , but the efforts of his friends to find him a wife continued for several years afterwards. While Mr. Lee believes that such of the Sonnets as are personal in their character are addressed to Southampton, he does not understand that nobleman to be the "Mr.
He says: "No peer of the day bore a name that could be represented by the initials 'Mr. The Earl of Pembroke was, from his birth to the date of his succession to the earldom in , known by the courtesy title of Lord Herbert, and by no other name, and he could not have been designated at any period of his life by the symbols 'Mr.
If Thorpe knew the history of the Sonnets, and that both the author and the person to whom they were addressed did not wish to have them printed, he certainly would not venture to inscribe the book in distinct terms to the Earl of Pembroke; but he might be inclined to give an indirect hint to those who were acquainted with the story underlying the poems that he also knew of the Earl's connection with it. He could do this with perfect safety by using the initials "W.
Lee elsewhere remarks, were common to many names, and which therefore could not he proved to be meant to suggest "William Herbert.
In either case they might refer to the "begetter" of the poems as the collector or editor, though the other interpretation of "begetter" seems to accord better with the rest of the dedication. Lee thinks that Mr.
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