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The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827 99) reprinted
this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586 1604) with an
introduction and notes in 1878. Grosart incorrectly identified the
poem's author as a certain Sir Robert Chester of Royston. Later
research suggests Chester served as a chaplain or secretary in the
household of the work's dedicatee, Sir John Salusbury. Originally
printed in 1601, the grandiloquent, meandering poem is chiefly
remembered for the works appended to it. These include original
poems by Chester's contemporaries, Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman and
Marston, as well as the anonymous 'Ignoto' and 'Vatum Chorus'. All
the poems treat Chester's theme, an invented myth describing the
chaste, sacrificial love between a phoenix and a turtledove.
Scholars continue to debate the identity of the historical figures
signified by these birds, especially in Shakespeare's cryptic
contribution."
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