I still cling to the old traditional view that the plays of Shakespeare were written by Elvis Presley. The very name is proof. “Elvis” = “L. V. S.” = “lege Vilhelmus Shakespearius”; “Presley” = “press lie” = “publishing deception”.
In the immortal words of the Bard of Avon and Graceland, “What plain proceedings are more plain than these?”
But there's one important question that this thread hasn't yet addressed. Why did the author of Gerontius call himself by the blatantly obvious pseudonym "Newman"? Was it to indicate that this was the one English poem written by a genuinely new author, and not, as usual, by the great Bard under yet another name?
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