Selected Poems - Brossura

Wyatt, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1857546954 ISBN 13: 9781857546958

Casa editrice: Carcanet Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Providing a detailed outline of the social and literary context in which Sir Thomas Wyatt worked and the impact he had on the development of English poetry, this selection displays his range and virtuosity, with an introduction and notes that illuminate Wyatt's importance as a poet ahead of his time.

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L'autore

\Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century poet and an ambassador in the service of Henry VIII. Hardiman Scott was a journalist, a BBC correspondent, and a former president of the Suffolk Poetry Society.

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Sir Thomas Wyatt, "the first great English lyric poet", remains one of the most popular writer's of Henry VIII's court, and the most romantic, given his entanglement with Anne Boleyn, which resulted - legend has it - in some of his most passionate and vulnerable poems. This book contains a representative selection of his work: all the best-loved poems and many lesser-known pieces which illuminate a complex and sophisticated sensibility. Hardiman Scott sees Wyatt as a modern poet before his time and demonstrates the impact he and his younger contemporary the Earl of Surrey had on the development of English poetry. Wyatt introduced the sonnet, terza rima and other Italian verse forms into English and invented forms and processes of his own. Hardiman Scott's introduction and notes illuminate Wyatt's importance as "a modern poet before his time", "at a crossroads in English poetry", and provides a detailed outline of the social and literary context in which Wyatt worked and the impact he had on the development of English poetry.

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• Editore: Carcanet Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1857546954
• ISBN 13: 9781857546958
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96
• Redattore: Scott Hardiman