ABSTRACT
Joseph Hall might have played some part in the poems genesis as well as its publication. However, their public dedication to Drury would plausibly have been part of the latter's self-promotion, and its theme congenial for his own more extreme resentment at not being entrusted with the role and position he demanded. Joseph Hall, with his long experience in publication, may have taken on the task, which is incompletely fulfilled with regard to minor errors. John Donne was travelling on the Continent in the spring of 1612 when 1612 appeared, Joseph Hall, with his long experience in publication, may have taken on the task, which is incompletely fulfilled with regard to minor errors. Hall would have known Anne Lyly as a parishioner, so may have met John Donne visiting her, and then introduced him to the Drurys or himself suggested the elegy.
