Lamp in the Shadows
Lamp in the Shadows,
the Works and Days of the Oxfordian Poets.
The light of pure artistry draws us: in the beating of our wings you can hear a faint melody.
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We call ourselves the Oxfordian Poets because we draw inspiration from the works of Shake-speare, whom we believe to have been Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. The poems in our gallery originated in a collaborative novel entitled The Further Adventures of Thomas Niemand, a work in prose that was supposed to be about a scoundrel, dropout, and general low life, who, his life stretched thin between chaotic nights and days plagued by failure, somehow manages to leave behind these beautifully crafted poems of a vatic bent. I was particularly intrigued by tension between the character's role as misfit and nuisance, his hidden erudition, his troubled spirituality: something in the vein of a Villon or Caravaggio. Having always wanted to collaborate with other writers, I soon turned an outline of the project over to a friend from university (known as Euklid on this site). We wrote several chapters and a few poems together, usually with myself writing the rough drafts and him doing the 'tweaking.' After a while, the poems took on a life of their own, and we decided to set up a web site for our work. We also collaborate with two other writers, Hieronymus and Zuleika (we beg the reader's indulgence: we use these names to protect our respective careers). So, while our poems soar, our little book plods along. As for me, it's no secret why we call it the further adventures; the novel portrays what my life might have been like had I not cleaned myself up a few years back. I have taken on the character's name to remind myself of that.
Finally, though we are not affiliated in any way with Mark Anderson, we are huge supporters of his book Shakespeare by Another Name, a fabulous biography of Edward de Vere.
Lamp in the Shadows
Works and Days of the Oxfordian Poets
Lamp in the Shadows
Works and Days of the Oxfordian Poets
