Thomas Wyatt
Whoso list to hunt- graven with diamonds
"And graven with diamonds in letters plain/ there is written her fair neck roundabout/ noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am/ and wild for to hold, though I seem tame"
Innocentia Veritas Via- epistrophe
"Circum regna tonat"- and it thunders through the reign. From Seneca's Phaedra
Alistair Fox- Boleyn affair
"Filled him with a sense of endless mutability in the world"
The lively sparks that issue from thine eyes- deadly blaze
"For after the deadly blaze, as is no wonder/ I hear the deadly 'Nay' of fearful thunder"
In eternum I was once determed- forthwith I found
"Forthwith I found the thing that I might like/ and sought with love to warm her heart alike"
W.H Auden- tragedy
"Greek tragedy is tragedy of necessity" "Christian tragedy is tragedy of possibility"
It was my choice
"It was my choice, it was no chance/ that brought my heart in other's hold"
They flee from me- no dream
"It was no dream: I lay broad waking/ but all is turned through my gentleness/ into a strange fashion of forsaking"
C.S Lewis
"Late Medieval literature" was "dull, feeble and incompetent"
Alistair Fox- therapy
"Poetry, in other words, served as a form of psychic therapy for Wyatt"
W.H Auden- private faces
"Private faces in public places/ are wiser and nicer/ than public faces in private places"
In eternum I was once determed- feeble building
"That feeble building is on feeble ground"
Carol Rumens
"The Petrarchan sonnet presented to Wyatt a matrix of revelation within concealment"
Whoso list to hunt- wearied me so sore
"The vain travail hath wearied me so sore/ I am one of them that farthest come behind"
Innocentia Veritas Viat- bloody days
"These bloody days have broken my heart/ my lust, my youth did them depart/ and blind desire of estate"
They flee from me
"They flee from me, that sometime did me seek/ with naked foot stalking in my chamber"
DATES
1515- Wyatt enters court 1526- Henry falls in love with Anne 1536- Anne executed
Sonnet- rhyme scheme change
Changed Petrarch's rhyme scheme to abba abba cdc cdd
It burneth yet
LOVER: "It burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire" LADY: "What is the thing that hath inflamed thy heart?"
Alistair Fox- politics
Tudor literature "almost invariably concerned with politics"
