Thomas Wyatt (poet)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (born 1503 at Allington Castle , Maidstone , Kent , † October 11, 1542 in London ) was an English poet and diplomat .
Life
Wyatt came from the nobility and served at the court of Henry VIII , who sent him to Italy on a diplomatic mission in 1527 . There Wyatt was temporarily imprisoned by the emperor, but he was able to familiarize himself with Italian Renaissance poetry. 1528–32 was Wyatt Marshal of Calais and 1537–39 envoy to Spain . Wyatt was of a violent temper. According to rumors, he was Anne Boleyn's lover before and after her wedding to Heinrich. For many performers this finds a literary expression in the sonnet Whose list to hunt .
At Easter 1537 Wyatt was beaten to Knight Bachelor ("Sir") and was elected to Parliament in December 1541 as Knight of the Shire for Kent .
Wyatt translated Plutarch (published 1528) and wrote Certayne Psalms , a collection of poems that appeared posthumously in 1549. Other poems attributed to Wyatt appeared in 1557 in a collection of several writers under the title Tottel's Miscellany or Songs and Sonnets . Wyatt, along with Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is the creator of the English sonnet in the style of Francesco Petrarch . Some of his poems are completely free of any foreign influence, in others he uses the canzoniere as a template, but gives the poems his own character by transferring the templates to life at the court of Henry VIII.
Sir Thomas Wyatt was married to Elizabeth Brooke, sister of George Brookes . His son, Thomas Wyatt (1521–1554) was a rebel leader during the reign of Mary I (see Wyatt conspiracy ).
Works
- Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt - On the Internet Archive - online
literature
- Peter Murphy: The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt. Stanford University, Stanford 2019, ISBN 978-1-5036-0700-2 .
- Susan Brigden: Thomas Wyatt: the heart's forest , London: Faber & Faber, 2012, ISBN 978-0-571-23584-1
- EMW Tillyard : The Poetry Of Sir Thomas Wyatt . Publisher: The Scholartis Press 1929
- Heinrich Nagel: Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: a literary and linguistic historical study . Printed by the Weigel'sche Hofdruckerei in 1889
- Rudolf Alscher: S ir Thomas Wyatt and his position in the history of the development of English literature and verse art . Published by Wilhelm Braumüller, Wien 1886
Web links
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Biography ( Memento from May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Sir Thomas Wyatt on Poem hunter
- The Poetry Foundation
- Jokinen, Anniina: "The Life of Sir Thomas Wyatt." In: Luminarium . August 2, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 50.
- ↑ Helen Miller: WYATT, Sir Thomas I (by 1504-42), of Allington Castle, Kent. In: ST Bindoff (Ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1509-1558. Members. Boydell and Brewer, London 1982.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wyatt, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomas Wyatt the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1503 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allington Castle , Maidstone , Kent |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1542 |
| Place of death | London |