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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tottel, Richard, -1594.

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547.

Holton, Amanda.

MacFaul, Tom.

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 549 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Penguin, 2011.

Summary:

'Hers will I be, and onely with this thought Content my selfe, although my chaunce be nought'

Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired many major Elizabethan writers, including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought the 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 published 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tottel's Miscellany 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxviii]-xxx) and index.

ISBN:

9780141192048

0141192046

OCLC:

751787160