A comparative anthology of all of the variedly-bylined texts in William Byrd's linguistic-group, with scholarly introductions that solve previously impenetrable literary mysteries.
This is a comparative anthology of William Byrd's multi-bylined verse, with scholarly introductions to their biographies, borrowings, and generic and structural formulas. The tested Byrd-group includes 30 texts with 29 different bylines. Each of these texts is covered in a separate chronologically-organized section. This anthology includes modernized translations of some of the greatest and the wittiest poetry of the Renaissance. Some of these poems are the most famous English poems ever written, while others have never been modernized before. These poems serve merely as a bridge upon which a very different history of early British poetry and music is reconstructed, through the alternative history of the single ghostwriter behind them.
Handwriting Analysis: Byrd-Group
"Alexander Barclay's" Translation of Pope Pius II's Eclogues (1530?)
"John Skelton's" Pithy, Pleasant and Profitable Works (1568)
"Sir Walter Raleigh's" Poems Between 1576 and 1604
"Edmund Spenser's" Shepherds' Calendar (1579)
"Thomas Watson's" Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love (1582)
William Byrd's Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety (1588)
"Sir Edward Dyer's" Poems Between 1588 and 1620
"Robert Greene's" Poems in Menaphon (1589) and Dorastus and Fawnia (1588/1696)
"Philip Sidney's" Astrophil and Stella (1591)
"Thomas Lodge's" Phillis (1593)
"Giles Fletcher's" Licia (1593)
"Henry Willobie's" Avisa (1594)
"John Monday's" Songs and Psalms (1594)
"Thomas Morley's" Ballets (1595)
"John Dowland's" First Book of Songs or Airs (1597)
"Michael Cavendish's" 14 Airs in Tablature to the Lute (1598)
"William Shakespeare's" The Passionate Pilgrim (1599)
"John Bennet's" Madrigals (1599)
"John Farmer's" First Set of English Madrigals (1599)
"Thomas Weelkes'" Madrigals (1600)
"Richard Carlton's" Madrigals (1601)
"Anthony Monday", "Henry Chettle" and "William Shakespeare's" Sir Thomas More, "Addition III" (Censored: 1592-1603)
"Michael Drayton's" Idea (1603-1619)
"Michael East's" Second Set of Madrigals (1606)
"Thomas Ford's" Music of Sundry Kinds (1607)
"William Shakespeare's" Sonnets (1609)
"Robert Devereux's" Poems (1610)
"Orlando Gibbons" or "Sir Christopher Hatton's" First Set of Madrigals and Motets (1612)
