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Many besides the 'dedicatory' sonnets are addressed to a handsome youth of wealth and rank, for whom the poet avows 'love,' in the Elizabethan sense of friendship.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Throughout Europe 'dedicatory' sonnets or poems to women betray identical characteristics to those that were addressed to men.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

{136} Although no specific reference is made outside the twenty 'dedicatory' sonnets to the youth as a literary patron, and the clues to his identity are elsewhere vaguer, there is good ground for the conclusion that the sonnets of disinterested love or friendship also have Southampton for their subject.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

Three of the twenty 'dedicatory' sonnets merely translate into the language of poetry the expressions of devotion which had already done duty in the dedicatory epistle in prose that prefaces 'Lucrece.'

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

The dedicatory inscription in Greek, which survives to this day, is one of the few pieces of contemporary evidence we possess naming the Macedonian king:

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The dedicatory inscription in Greek, which survives to this day, is one of the few pieces of contemporary evidence we possess naming the Macedonian king:

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Two additional dedications to pianists were "This Nearly Was Mine," inspired by the late Walter Bishop Jr., and an Ellingtonian collage of "Prelude to a Kiss" mixed in with an original dedicatory waltz, "To Duke With Love."

Swinging Down in the Basement and Out in the Garden Will Friedwald 2011

The dedicatory inscription in Greek, which survives to this day, is one of the few pieces of contemporary evidence we possess naming the Macedonian king:

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Ben Jonson mentions Shakespeare's scholastic failings "and though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek" in his dedicatory poem to his great peer's 1623 folio.

Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

Ben Jonson mentions Shakespeare's scholastic failings "and though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek" in his dedicatory poem to his great peer's 1623 folio.

Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011