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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sir Thomas Wyatt"”.
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Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Struggle of the "Weried Mynde"
<p>When the poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt has attracted critical attention at all, it has been both praised and blamed for a variety of reasons, often the wrong reasons. Wyatt's role in the historical development of English verse, as the poet who introduced such forms as the sonnet, the rondeau, and …
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Creativity with Purest Energy: How Sir Thomas Wyatt Introduced Modern English Poetics
<p>The court poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) asserts a special confidence and boldness of the individual and his poetics that stand at the forefront of an ambitious, sure and powerful England which eventually came into place during his life and afterwards. Wyatt marks the start of a new …
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"My dere chylde take hede how Trystram doo you tell": Hunting in English Literature, 1486-1603
… exile or disadvantage, with sections on Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, George Gascoigne, and William Shakespeare. I argue that the authors use the hunt to reconnect with the court, by asserting their prestige and their mastery over the practice.</p> <p>My second chapter …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… (1587, 1594), Robert Parsons (1594), and Sir John Harington (1602) have different agendas and reach varied literate and elite audiences. But all these texts unsettle monarchy. Baldwin, penning fictional monologues of the fall of sovereigns, ventriloquizes their flaws. Chronicle histories, …
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The English sonnet from Wyatt to Milton
… -- translated from the Italian of Petrarch by Sir Thomas Wyatt, purified by the Earl of Surrey, exalted and made popular by Sidney, experimented with and sometimes tortured by more than a dozen of his contemporaries and followers, and filled with a greater power than it had ever yet known by …