SOURCE: "Two Dead Birds: A Note on The Phoenix and Turtle," in English Renaissance Studies: Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in Honour of Her Seventieth Birthday, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1980, pp. 44-55.
In the following essay, Buxton examines the historical background of The Phoenix and Turtle, and emphasizes that Shakespeare's poem represents an exhibition of pure poetry on the theme of constancy in love.
