Bartholomew Griffin

Bartholomew Griffin, (BG ) ( † 1602? ) Was an English poet of the Elizabethan age.

Life

About his life no reliable data are known.

Works

Griffin is consisting of 62 sonnets remained by his 1596 book of poems printed " Fidessa, more chaste than kinde " ( in the same way as Shakespeare's sonnets ) are known. Under the name of Bartholomew Griffin during the Elizabethan period otherwise no other work known. The third sonnet from Fidessa, starting with ' Venus and Adonis sitting by her yong, " was published in 1599 in The Passionate Pilgrims by William Shakespeare

Bartholomew Griffin a code name?

After Conrad leaves the poetry collection " Fidessa " no other conclusion than that Bartholomew Griffin must have been a by Christopher Marlowe / alias Shakespeare pseudonym used. The epic poem " Fidessa " with its 62 sonnets contains immense biographical references to Marlowe's fate ( s.Son.13 " I live in the to care" ). The action of a poet about his fate, his exile, the loss of his identity and his name in Shakespeare's sonnets No other contemporary work is content and style as close as Bartholomew Griffins " Fidessa " that the sonnets poetic surpasses in many places.

This description of his situation is unique autobiographical and by the striking text parallels to the image of the hunted deer in " Lost Love's Labour " to Marlowe's "Hero and Leander " and other images ( the fly did dieth in the flame, George Wither, A collection of Emblems 1635) so reinforced that doubt as to the authorship of this sonnet by Christopher Marlowe alone hardly seems possible.