Tottel's miscellany : songs and sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and others

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Tottel's miscellany : songs and sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and others

edited with an introduction and notes by Amanda Holton and Tom MacFaul

(Penguin classics, . Penguin literature)

Penguin, 2011

  • : pbk

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includes bibliographical references (p. [xxviii]-xxx) and indexes

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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.

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