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Also known as Sir Thomas Wyatt

English poet and diplomat (1503-1542)

Person · Open Library

Works
44

Top works

  • A description of the national medals of America
  • Unfading beauties
  • The Aldine Edition Of The British Poets
  • Tottel's Miscellany. Songes and Sonnets
  • The sacred tableaux; or, Remarkable incidents in the Old and New Testament

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1945-01-28
alternative/indie rockart popart rockavant-progcanterbury sceneexperimental

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Listeners
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Total plays
182

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Quotes

  • Forget not yet the tried intentOf such a truth as I have meant;My great travail so gladly spent,Forget not yet!
  • And wilt thou leave me thus?Say nay! say nay! for shame!To save thee from the blameOf all my grief and grame.And wilt thou leave me thus?Say nay! say nay!
  • Behold love, thy power how she despiseth:My great pain, how little she regardethThe holy oath, whereof she taketh no cureBroken she hath: and yet she bideth sureRight at her ease, and little she dreadeth.
  • My lute, awake! perform the last&nbsp;&nbsp;Labour that thou and I shall waste,And end that I have now begun;&nbsp;&nbsp;For when this song is sung and past,&nbsp;&nbsp;My lute, be still, for I have done.
  • What should I say?Since Faith is dead,And Truth awayFrom you is fled?
  • Can ye say nay,But that you saidThat I alwayShould be obeyed?And thus betrayed,Or that I wist!Farewell, unkist!

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Key facts

Born
1503, Allington Castle , Kent, England
Died
11 October 1542 (aged 38 – 39), Clifton Maybank House, Dorset, England
Resting place
Sherborne Abbey , Dorset
Alma mater
St John's College, Cambridge
Occupations
Statesman, poet
Title
Ambassador of England, High Sheriff of Kent , Knight of the shire for Kent
Spouse
Elizabeth Brooke
Children
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger , Henry, Francis, Edward
Parent s
Sir Henry Wyatt , Anne Skinner
Language
Early Modern English
Period
High Renaissance
Genres
Poetry ( sonnet epigram satire song translation)
Literary movement
English Renaissance , Petrarchism

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Thomas Wyatt, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent, though his family was originally from Yorkshire. His family adopted the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses. His mother was Anne Skinner, and his father Henry, who had earlier been imprisoned and tortured by Richard III, had been a Privy Councillor of Henry VII and remained a trusted adviser when Henry VIII ascended the throne in 1509.

Thomas followed his father to court after his education at St John's College, Cambridge. Entering the King's service, he was entrusted with many important diplomatic missions. In public life, his principal patron was Thomas Cromwell, after whose death he was recalled from abroad and imprisoned (1541). Though subsequently acquitted and released, shortly thereafter he died. His poems were circulated at court and may have been published anonymously in the anthology The Court of Venus (earliest edition c. 1537) during his lifetime, but were not published under his name until after his death; the first major book to feature and attribute his verse was Tottel's Miscellany (1557), printed 15 years after his death.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Wyatt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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