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Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

By Richard , Holton , Amanda;Surrey , Henry Howard;MacFaul , Tom;Tottel

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2011
ISBN
9780141933788, 014193378X
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
1 MB (1420736 bytes)
Series
Penguin classics
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1500-1700;English poetry -- Early modern1500-1700;English poetry--Early modern;English poeIrishPOETRY / European / EnglishScottishWelsh;English poetry--Early modern

Description

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.

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