Hmm . . . I wonder how the average Stratfordian scholar esteemed the known poems of the Earl of Oxford prior to the publication of Looney's "SHAKESPEARE" IDENTIFIED in 1920. I recall seeing quotations -- proferred by Looney himself in his book -- from Shakespeare scholars about De Vere's skills as a poet, when there was no Anti-Oxfordian axe to grind. Only when the proposition was put forth that De Vere WAS 'Shakespeare' did Stratfordian partisans begin to denigrate Oxford's poetry, hinting that all the contemporaneous praise heaped upon De Vere was mere 'sucking-up' to a would-be patron, mere flattery that was really undeserved.
Excellent presentation. The relevance of music to the question of number in poetry is one of those "duh, of course" idea. Also great work on the "Ball" poems!
In NYC - lost this broadcast at 7:47 (timeline). I look forward to resuming - the commentary is, as ever, deeply compelling and the height of erudition.
"Ball" may be an abbreviated version of "Bolebec," since "Isabel (de Bolebec) inherited the barony of Bolebec, and from her death in 1245 until 1703 the Earls of Oxford adopted the style of "Baron de Bolebec."" Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Bolebec
Hmm . . . I wonder how the average Stratfordian scholar esteemed the known poems of the Earl of Oxford prior to the publication of Looney's "SHAKESPEARE" IDENTIFIED in 1920. I recall seeing quotations -- proferred by Looney himself in his book -- from Shakespeare scholars about De Vere's skills as a poet, when there was no Anti-Oxfordian axe to grind. Only when the proposition was put forth that De Vere WAS 'Shakespeare' did Stratfordian partisans begin to denigrate Oxford's poetry, hinting that all the contemporaneous praise heaped upon De Vere was mere 'sucking-up' to a would-be patron, mere flattery that was really undeserved.
Excellent presentation. The relevance of music to the question of number in poetry is one of those "duh, of course" idea. Also great work on the "Ball" poems!
In NYC - lost this broadcast at 7:47 (timeline). I look forward to resuming - the commentary is, as ever, deeply compelling and the height of erudition.
"Ball" may be an abbreviated version of "Bolebec," since "Isabel (de Bolebec) inherited the barony of Bolebec, and from her death in 1245 until 1703 the Earls of Oxford adopted the style of "Baron de Bolebec.""
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_de_Bolebec
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A planet is like a ball and so too a star