Tottel's Miscellany: Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

by Amanda Holton, Amanda Holton (Editor), Tom MacFaul (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141933788
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	10/27/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Tom MacFaul lectures in Renaissance poetry and drama at Corpus Christi college, Oxford. His books include Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (2007) and Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson (2010).

Amanda Holton is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, and a specialist in Old and Middle English and the English language. Her books include The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics (2008).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction ix

Further Reading xxviii

Note on the Text xxxi

Tottel's Miscellany 1

Appendix: Poems from Q1 excluded from Q2 and later editions 327

Notes 356

List of Poem Genres 536

Index of Verse Forms 538

Index of First Lines with Poem Number 540