Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds and metres, Surrey’s verse…
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, drew on classical Latin poetry, notably translating parts of Virgil’s Aeneid into English blank verse. This classical model explains the…
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Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted
Petrarch and Petrarchanism to
English sounds and metres, Surrey’s
verse tends to look back beyond
Petrarch to the
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, drew on classical Latin poetry, notably translating parts of Virgil’s Aeneid into English blank verse. This classical model explains the contrast with Wyatt’s adaptation of Petrarch’s Italian poetry.
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