Wyatt, Surrey, and Early Tudor PoetryLongman, 1998 - 217 For the courtiers of King Henry VIII, the writing of verse was a sign of a ready wit and social gracefulness. But their verse could also give coded expression to desires and resentments produced by competition amongst an elite for the favour of an increasingly tyrannical king. This study focuses primarily on the work of the two most successful courtier poets, Sir Thomas Wyatt (c.1503-1542) and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547). Although Surrey admired and imitated Wyatt, each represents a significantly different element in the Henrician court. Wyatt was a 'new man', rising in the service of the King, while Surrey was a member of the old peerage, jealous of the erosion of traditional powers and privileges. The book offers readings of the full range of each man's writing, from amorous Italianate songs and sonnets, to classicizing epigrams and satires, and Reformist psalm paraphrases. The poetry is considered in the contexts of their careers, of the writing of contemporaries, and of the political and social conditions within which they lived. Dr Heale's analysis makes it clear that the lightest court song is often freighted with complex significance, while the poems of plain-speaking reflection prove to be wily approximations of the truth. This accessible and informative text will be a helpful resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature and history, especially those taking courses on Renaissance and Early Modern writing, Tudor literature, and the Tudor court. -- Book cover. |
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... final death and physical disintegration of the body , and to the sands run out through a shattered hour - glass . Wyatt's development of the complex oppositions and juxtapositions inherent in the patterned brevity of the sonnet here ...
... final death and physical disintegration of the body , and to the sands run out through a shattered hour - glass . Wyatt's development of the complex oppositions and juxtapositions inherent in the patterned brevity of the sonnet here ...
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... final decade and a half of Henry's reign . Notable were Queen Anne Boleyn before her execution in 1536 ; Thomas Cromwell , Wyatt's patron , and Henry's chief secretary until his execution in 1540 ; and , in the final years particularly ...
... final decade and a half of Henry's reign . Notable were Queen Anne Boleyn before her execution in 1536 ; Thomas Cromwell , Wyatt's patron , and Henry's chief secretary until his execution in 1540 ; and , in the final years particularly ...
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... final recourse to Latin suggests that at the end of this , probably his last psalm , the evangelical display , so much in evidence in the para- phrases of Psalms 88 and 73 , ' that in the mouthe of thy elect thy mercies might be spredd ...
... final recourse to Latin suggests that at the end of this , probably his last psalm , the evangelical display , so much in evidence in the para- phrases of Psalms 88 and 73 , ' that in the mouthe of thy elect thy mercies might be spredd ...
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