Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A LifeOxford University Press, 2003 - 448 páginas The first comprehensive biography of Henry Howard, Poet Earl of Surrey, this book fills a major gap in the history of early modern British culture. Sessions's powerful narrative combines historical scholarship with close readings of poetic texts and Tudor paintings, to explore the remarkable life of the man who was heir to the greatest title outside the royal family but who was beheaded in 1547 on the orders of Henry VIII. The first cousin of Queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard (and an influence on his young cousin the Princess Elizabeth), Surrey personified the contradictions of the courtier's role, through his standing both as a representative of the older nobility and as a poet who wrote innovative texts and created two of the most enduring poetic forms in England: the English sonnet and blank verse. |
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Prologue I | 1 |
Two Battles II | 11 |
The Mother | 41 |
Windsor and France | 69 |
The Deaths of 1536 | 108 |
Mount Surrey | 143 |
Lyrics and Lives | 175 |
The Countess of Surrey | 200 |
The Origins of Blank Verse | 260 |
Lieutenant General of the King | 288 |
The Shame of St Etienne | 319 |
ENOUGH SURVIVES | 331 |
Surreys Last Portrait | 333 |
The Final Days | 352 |
A Conclusion | 388 |
Bibliography | 419 |
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