What British historian wrote about Sonnet 154?
Sonnet 154 As the last in the famed collection of sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare from 1592 to 1598, Sonnet 154 is most often thought of in a pair with the previous sonnet, number 153. As A. L. Rowse states in "Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Problems Solved", Sonnets 153 and 154 "are not unsuitably placed as a kind of coda to the Dark Lady Sonnets, to which they relate." Rowse calls attention to the fact that Sonnets 153 and 154 "serve quite well to round off the affair Shakespeare had with Emilia, the woman characterized as the Dark Lady, and the section of the Dark Lady sonnets". Shakespeare used Greek mythology to address love and despair in relationships. The material in Sonnets 153 and 154 has been shown to relate to the six-line epigram by the Byzantine poet known as Marianus Scholasticus, who published a collection of 3,500 poems called "The Greek Anthology". When translated, the epigram resembles Sonnets 153 and 154, addressing love and the story of Cupid, the torch, and the Nymph's attempt to extinguish the torch.
John Jenour John Jenour (146517 September 1542) was a British legal official. He was the son of William Jenour of Stonham Aspal, Suffolk and his wife Katherine Whiting, and the elder brother of Robert Jenour, who became an officer of the Court of Common Pleas along with John. In 1491 he worked as an attorney for the Common Pleas, and in 1503 he became Filazer of Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, followed by a 1510 promotion to Second Prothonotary. As Prothonotary he was in charge of pleading and entries, and his book of entries was sometimes cited in court; a copy currently belongs to the Library of Congress. Although he never rose higher than Second Prothonotary, his influence on the next generation of judges was profound; he trained Sir Robert Catlyn, Sir Robert Broke, Sir Anthony Browne and James Dyer, all of whom became Chief Justices. He died on 17 September 1542, leaving two sons; Richard, the elder, later became a Member of Parliament and clerk of the Court of General Surveyors, while Robert, the younger, also became a barrister, although not one of any major note.