Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet
Barbara Everett: The Sonnets, 8 May 2008
“... meaning of these figures. It is difficult for any friendly reader of these poems not to act like Harold Ross, sometime editor of the New Yorker, who would scribble ‘WHO HE?’ in the margins of any copy that struck him as insufficiently explaining its references. But to translate these poems into historical gossip is to miss the whole original meaning they ... ”