A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.
Pii1 Anagram on John Felton
Notes. The surviving anagrams on John Felton discover politically resonant messages in the scrambled letters of the assassin’s name. Here the poorly anagrammed name resolves into one of the basic arguments of contemporary pro-Felton writings, that Buckingham’s murder was not a crime.
John Felton: NO FELLON
Source. Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. e.14, fol. 12v
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