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The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder - Volume One: Prose (Hardcover)
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The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder - Volume One: Prose (Hardcover)
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Thomas Wyatt (1504?-42) may have written the first sonnet in
English. His translation from Plutarch's Moralia was the first
publication of a classical moral essay in English. He introduced
continental forms such as ottava rima to the language, and his
paraphrase of the Penitential Psalms sparked a century of popular
psalm translations. Yet while decades of criticism have centered on
a handful of his best-known poems, many others are poorly
understood, in part because we lack an authoritative edition. This
volume-the first in a planned two-volume collection of Wyatt's
complete works-comprises scholarly editions of 35 letters or
memoranda, Wyatt's Declaration from the Tower and his Defence
speech against treason charges. It also includes the first
scholarly edition of The Quyete of Mynde. Each text is extensively
annotated, each letter has a prefacing headnote, and each grouping
of texts is separately introduced. The recipient of one letter is
identified here for the first time from new archival discoveries.
Two letters of instruction from Henry VIII are included along with
four appendices containing related documents. Biographical entries
(totalling 17,000 words) identify and introduce 64 persons related
to Wyatt's diplomatic service, including every known member of
Wyatt's diplomatic household.
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