Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey
Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey

Author: William A. Sessions

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780198186250

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In this biography of Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey, the author assesses his role in Tudor society and examines his image of the Renaissance courtier, his representation of nobility and his poetic work and creation of poetic forms.

Tottel's Miscellany
Tottel's Miscellany

Author: Amanda Holton

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 014193378X

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Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet 'Complaint of a lover rebuked' are joined in the miscellany by a large collection of diverse, intriguingly anonymous poems both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.