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Thomas Wyatt
The Heart's Forest
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The award-winning biography of Thomas Wyatt, revealing the fascinating story of his life in Henry VIII's court.
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest is Susan Brigden's remarkably original biography of renaissance poet Thomas Wyatt, which reveals the fascinating history of his life in Henry VIII's court.
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Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's court and alludes darkly to events which it might be death to describe.
In the Tower, twice, Wyatt was both betrayed and betrayer. Thought to be the lover of Anne Boleyn, he was also the devoted 'slave' of Katherine of Aragon. He was driven to secrets and lies, and forced to live with the moral and mortal consequences of his shifting allegiances.
As ambassador to Emperor Charles V, Wyatt enjoyed favour, but his embassy turned into a nightmare when the Pope called for a crusade against the English King and sent the Inquisition against him. At Henry VIII's court, where only silence brought safety, Wyatt played the idealised lover, but also tried to speak truth to power.
Wyatt's life provides a way to examine the Renaissance and Reformation in England. Above all, this new biography is attuned to Wyatt's voice, the paradox within him of inwardness and the will to 'make plain' his heart, which make him exceptionally difficult to know—and fascinating to explore.
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ISBN: 9780571235858
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 April 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 752
About the Author
Susan Brigden, Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College and Reader in the University of Oxford, is author of London and the Reformation (Oxford, 1989) and New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 (Penguin Press, 2000).
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