For these editing principles, please see “An Introduction to this Text” for the Sonnets. We have edited the texts of the poems included in this edition following the same principles used in the Sonnets. 1 of the women has been raped by her ex- lover, 1 other by driver of a minibus she got on, 1 women by a police officer in the police department which she visited to file a. We do not find Jackson’s case to be persuasive and so have not included “A Louers Complaint” in this collection of poems. A third narrative poem, A Lover's Complaint, in which a young woman laments her seduction by a persuasive suitor, was printed in the first edition of the Sonnets in 1609. 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. Kerrigan, John Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. 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. “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. Publisher Description: A Lovers Complaint is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeares Sonnets.

Lover's complaint