‘If thy soul check thee that I come so near’

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‘If thy soul check thee that I come so near’

Poet(s)

Shakespeare, William

Credits

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DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 16:90, 246, August 1884.

First line

If thy soul check thee that I come so near

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

Sonnet 136. (CE) Cited in Charles MacKay’s essay A Tangled Skein Unravelled: Or the Mystery of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (pp. 238-262). MacKay questions Shakespeare’s authorship and rather suggests William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, as the possible author of this sonnet. (HR)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8182

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘If thy soul check thee that I come so near’