Author: Richard C. Harrier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674094604
Category : Canon (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Thomas Wyatt is the finest English poet between Chaucer and the Elizabethans. Many poems have been wrongly attributed to him, however, and the authenticity of different versions of his lyrics has been a matter of dispute. Richard Harrier makes a significant contribution both by establishing accurate texts and by determining the canon itself. The only solid foundation for the Wyatt canon is his personal copybook, the Egerton MS, here reproduced in a diplomatic text. The apparatus records all changes within the manuscript and all contemporary variants; explanatory notes are provided. This volume, which includes a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the sources, will stand as the ultimate authority for the text and canon of Wyatt's poems.
Author: Thomas Wyatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789433029
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The complete poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, as well as biographical material.
Author: Thomas Wyatt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898283188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Author: Nicola Shulman
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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In this thrillingly entertaining book, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry VIII's reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry VIII's most glamorous and enigmatic subject: Sir Thomas Wyatt. Poet, statesman, spy, lover of Anne Boleyn and favorite both of Henry VIII and his sinister minister Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant Wyatt was admired and envied in equal measure. His love poetry began as risqué entertainment for ambitious men and women at the slippery top of the court. But when the axe began to fall and Henry VIII's laws made his subjects fall silent in terror, Wyatt's poetic skills became a way to survive. He saw that a love poem was a place where secrets could hide.
Author: Annie Finch
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472067251
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the haiku to rap music--and trace their history
Author: Susan Brigden
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571282083
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 665
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Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. 'Chieftain' of a 'new company of courtly makers', he brought the Italian poetic Renaissance to England, but he was also revered as prophet-poet of the Reformation. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's court, and alludes darkly to events which it might be death to describe. In the Tower, twice, Wyatt was betrayed and betrayer. This remarkably original biography is more - and less - than a Life, for Wyatt is so often elusive, in flight, like his Petrarchan lover, into the 'heart's forest'. Rather, it is an evocation of Wyatt among his friends, and his enemies, at princely courts in England, Italy, France and Spain, or alone in contemplative retreat. Following the sources - often new discoveries, from many archives - as far as they lead, Susan Brigden seeks Wyatt in his 'diverseness', and explores his seeming confessions of love and faith and politics. Supposed, at the time and since, to be the lover of Anne Boleyn, he was also the devoted 'slave' of Katherine of Aragon. Aspiring to honesty, he was driven to secrets and lies, and forced to live with the moral and mortal consequences of his shifting allegiances. As ambassador to Emperor Charles V, he enjoyed favour, but his embassy turned to nightmare when the Pope called for a crusade against the English King and sent the Inquisition against Wyatt. At Henry VIII's court, where only silence brought safety, Wyatt played the idealized lover, but also tried to speak truth to power. Wyatt's life, lived so restlessly and intensely, provides a way to examine a deep questioning at the beginning of the Renaissance and Reformation in England. Above all, this new biography is attuned to Wyatt's dissonant voice and broken lyre, the paradox within him of inwardness and the will to 'make plain' his heart, all of which make him exceptionally difficult to know - and fascinating to explore.
Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Chris Stamatakis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199644403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This study reappraises Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1504-1542) as a poetic innovator. It discusses Wyatt's reflections on the writing process, and his awareness of how words can be turned in new directions - that is, rewritten, amended, transformed, manipulated, even performed - over the course of a text's production, transmission, and reception.
Author: James Longenbach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226492698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Fleet River traces the journey of two travelers through landscapes earthly and otherworldly, following the river as it turns, dips underground, then reemerges unexpectedly as they fall in love with the world, as though for the first time. Mimicking the river's shifting course, the poems revise themselves as the book moves forward, turning against their own best discoveries, proving that the pilgrims' journey is less the discovery of love than the re-creation, poem by poem, of love's possibilities.
