A. W. (poet)
The anonymous poet A.W. is responsible for the long
poem "Complaint", printed in A Poetical Rapsody, a volume issued in 1602 by two brothers, Francis and Walter Davison.[1] In the Rapsody the poem is ascribed to Francis Davison, but in Davison's own manuscript, to "A. W.". Not only the eight rhyme-endings, but the actual words that compose them, are the same in each of eight stanzas
, a virtuoso display.
The mysterious "A.W." has never been identified but the songs of "A.W." found places in many anthologies and song-books of the early seventeenth century.
References
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Further reading
- Rollins, Hyder E. “A. W. And ‘A Poetical Rhapsody.’” Studies in Philology, vol. 29, no. 2, 1932, pp. 239–251. JSTOR. Accessed 20 Mar. 2021
- McCarthy, Penny, Pseudonymous Shakespeare: Rioting Language in the Sidney Circle, 2016, Taylor & Francis,
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