A possible new poem by Robert Southwell (with a bonus smidgen of Shakespeare and Erasmus)

Assessing authenticity

A few weeks ago there was quite a lot of coverage of a young scholar, Leah Veronese, who has identified a version of one of Shakespeare’s sonnets in a seventeenth century manuscript. This is quite unusual because you actually don’t find that many copies of any part of Shakespeare in manuscript collections before the later seventeenth-century at the earl…