tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post1710782517962348771..comments2024-03-14T10:31:26.918+00:00Comments on DCblog: On being a book's godfatherDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-4957802003888990342008-01-01T14:55:00.000+00:002008-01-01T14:55:00.000+00:00I also found this site about Literary Patronage in...I also found this site about Literary Patronage in England 1650-1800 through Google : <BR/><BR/>http://books.google.com/books?id=SATMmzGf3TEC&pg=RA1-PA24&lpg=RA1-PA24&dq=godfather+literary+dedications&source=web&ots=b6ak-UxnmJ&sig=ByJHUweSJiJbWtye7NigrglDd_E<BR/><BR/>Regards, Chris.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-49465042037526370442008-01-01T11:57:00.000+00:002008-01-01T11:57:00.000+00:00Well remembered!Well remembered!DChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-82405601877532337232008-01-01T11:25:00.000+00:002008-01-01T11:25:00.000+00:00On being a book's godfather.Bill Bryson in his boo...On being a book's godfather.<BR/><BR/>Bill Bryson in his book on Shakespeare comments on how Shakespeare dedicated his narrative poem 'Venus and Adonis' to the third Earl of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield, Henry Wriothesley.<BR/><BR/>The dedication says: <BR/>Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, now how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden. Only, if you honour seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle hours till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather...<BR/><BR/>Chris Greenough<BR/>chris@chrisgreenough.orangehome.co.ukAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com