For these editing principles, please see “An Introduction to this Text” for the Sonnets. An old man asks the reason for her sorrow, and she responds by telling him of a former lover who pursued, seduced, and finally abandoned her. We have edited the texts of the poems included in this edition following the same principles used in the Sonnets. A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem which depicts a speaker who sees a young woman weeping at the edge of a river, into which she throws torn-up letters, rings, and other tokens of love.

We do not find Jackson’s case to be persuasive and so have not included “A Louers Complaint” in this collection of poems. Jackson attempted to refute Elliott and Valenza in “A Lover’s Complaint Revisited” ( Shakespeare Studies 32 : 267–94). Valenza in their “Glass Slippers and Seven-League Boots: C-Prompted Doubts about Ascribing A Funeral Elegy and A Lover’s Complaint to Shakespeare” ( Shakespeare Quarterly 48 : 177–207), its attribution to Shakespeare was called seriously into question.

However, when “A Louers Complaint” was tested by Ward E. 1 The only other poem that might have been included in this edition is “A Louers Complaint.” It was printed in 1609 at the end of the volume of Shakespeares Sonnets.

The present edition is based directly upon these printings. Ilhan Omar should be probed over payments to ‘lover’: watchdog group. “The Phoenix and Turtle” first appeared in 1601 in Robert Chester’s Loves Martyr: or, Rosalins Complaint. Venus and Adonis was first printed in 1593 and Lucrece in 1594.

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