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John Davies of Hereford (c.
1565,
Hereford,
England – July
1618,
London) was a writing-master and an
Anglo-Welsh poet. He is usually known as
John Davies of Hereford in order to distinguish him from others of the same name.
In a
2007 monograph,
Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint,
and John Davies of Hereford, literary scholar
Brian Vickers attributes to Davies the poem 'A Louers complaint', which was published by
Thomas Thorpe with
Shakespeare's Sonnets in
1609. This attribution goes against a scholarly consensus which established itself during the 20th century, and in particular notable studies by
Kenneth Muir, Eliot Slater and MacDonald P. Jackson, but is based on both a detailed demonstration of the non-Shakespearean nature of the poem and a list of numerous verbal parallels—such as 'What brest so cold that isn't warmed heare' and 'What heart's so cold that isn't set on fire'—between the
Complaint and the known works of Davies. On this evidence it was omitted from the 2007
RSC Complete Works, a decision which MacD. P. Jackson calls a 'mistake' in his
RES review of Vickers's book, arguing, among other reservations, that 'Evidence that, in poems undoubtedly his, Davies exhibits an intimacy with Shakespeare's works equal to that of the author of
A Lover's Complaint is very meagre.' He rejoins also:
TLS review, has similar questions:
Mirum in Modum
, to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, who has been considered one of the likeliest candidates for Mr. W. H., the Sonnets' 'onlie begetter', in Thorpe's mysterious phrase. Vickers states that 'the concluding words [of
Mirum] suggest a degree of intimacy which is hard to explain'.
Hereford was at that time a
Welsh-speaking area, even though officially in
England. Davies wrote very copiously and rather tediously on theological and philosophical themes. He also wrote many epigrams on his contemporaries which have some historical interest. Davies's works include:
- Mirum in Modum, a Glimpse of God's Glory and the Soul's Shape (1602)
- Microcosmos (1603)
- Humours Heav's on Earth (1605)
- The Scourge of Folly (1610)
- The Picture of a Happy Man (1612)
- Wit's Bedlam (1617)
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