| Front | What was Thomas Wyatt's career? What impact did he have on poerty as a whole? General themes of his poetry? |
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| Back | •He was a courtier for much of his life => attends royal court and advices the king or queen (Henry V111 time) •With the help of the Earl of Surrey, he gave an English shape to the Petrarchan sonnet. This provided Wyatt with a matrix for revelation within concealement •Poems were personal, authentic private feeling => freedom of poetic expression for a Tudor courtier was hardly possible |
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