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Hi Martin, I'm fairly certain the note is one of the printer, not the author. Which is to say that Day is the one who composed the disclaimer. It does mean that Lok provided the poetry and gave him license to print or not--but it would be even more peculiar for Day to publish Norton's work under his initials (as I recall Psalm 51 appears in the *Residue*) and to withhold them when printing the *Meditation.* The stylistic similarities between the two pieces, as May notes, have been pretty well laid out in a chapter that I wrote comparing the two. But, as I say, the echoes are largely confined to Lok's translation of the Vulgate text which serves as marginalia to her original sonnet composition. (We're assuming it's hers in my narrative.) Best, Kim On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Martin Mueller < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Knowing nothing at all about this matter, I have an observation and a > question. The observation is that in the context of its age, it would not > be implausible for a woman to disclaim authorship and say that a friend > gave her what is in fact her work. The question is whether there would be > stylometric tests that make an attribution to Norton likely. Since we don’t > have much else (or anything) from Locke, that may not get us much further, > unless there were real give-aways that associate associated A Meditation > with texts by Norton. But such give-aways are quite rare. > > > > *From: *Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> on > behalf of Elisabeth Chaghafi <[log in to unmask]> > *Reply-To: *Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > *Date: *Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 11:35 AM > *To: *Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > *Subject: *Re: authorship of England's first sonnet sequence > > > > Does the format of your anthology allow for notes or cross-references (so > you could potentially place it under "Norton" but have an additional > note/cross-reference under "Lock" to explain why it's not where readers > would normally expect to find it)? If not, placing it under "Lock" and > commenting on it in the introduction would probably still be more > practical, even if May has a strong case about it being a wrong attribution. > > Elisabeth > > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Hannibal Hamlin <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Since so many Spenserians and Sidneians also have an interest in Psalms > and early modern women, I thought I'd consult the list on a decision I have > to make for my anthology of Psalms for the MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations > series. To whit, Anne Vaughan Lock's (or Locke/Lok, later Dering) *A > Meditation of a Penitent Sinner*, an extended paraphrase of Psalm 51, has > for some time been considered the first sonnet sequence in English. The > attribution was made most strongly by Susan Felch in her edition, and has > been accepted ever since. As many of you will know, however, in a recent > article in *Modern Philology* (114.4, 2017) Steven May has challenged the > attribution of the sequence to Anne Lock, who in fact disclaimed authorship > herself in the publication, claiming the work was given to her by a friend. > May argues that the friend, and the author of *A Meditation*, was Thomas > Norton, sonneteer, co-author of *Gorboduc*, and translator of Calvin's > *Institutes*. He makes a strong case, I think, but I haven't yet seen any > response to it in print. As May himself is aware, his argument removes a > very interesting woman from the canon of early modern poets (though she > remains interesting, and a translator), which is bound to strike many of us > as regrettable. But so it goes, perhaps, and it does make Thomas Norton > rather more interesting. > > > > My question, then, is whether anyone else has given this issue much > thought. Does anyone want to push back against May, or do we accept his > reattribution? 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