Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Post, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry SP - 540-59 ID - bbbc1774 T1 - "Reading 'The Phoenix and Turtle.'" AU - Kerrigan, John PY - 2013 DA - 2013 LA - English AB - Explicates poetic construction, heraldry, death, and ritual in "Phoenix and Turtle." Concludes that the poem "is premised on but transcends the competitiveness among funeral monuments and memorial verses for reputation, patronage, and survival in the face of mortality that made the Elizabeth period so productive of elegies and epitaphs." ER -