Sonnet 86

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Sonnet 86

Poet(s)

Shakespeare, William

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Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 16:90, 249, August 1884.

First line

Was it the proud full sail of his great verse

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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Notes and attribution research

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 Christopher Marlowe as the possible author of this sonnet. (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8184

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Sonnet 86