Couverture / Jaquette

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1504?-42) was England's premier poet during the reign of Henry VIII, and almost certainly the first person to write a sonnet in English. This book, volume one in a two-volume collection of his complete works, includes definitive editions of his prose.

Note biographique

Jason Powell is Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He co-edited Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare (Ashgate, 2013) with William T. Rossiter and has published widely on sixteenth century authors, including Wyatt, Sidney and Shakespeare. His essays have appeared in Huntington Library Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, among other venues.

Table des matières

• List of Illustrations


• Sigla


• The Calendar


• The Organization of Texts


• Wyatt's Abbreviations


• Editorial Principles


• Relevant Dates


• Part I: The Quyete of Mynde


• Introduction


• The Quyete of Mynde


• Dedicated at Alington, 31 December 1527


• Part II: Fatherly Letters


• Introduction


• Wyatt to his Son Thomas, Paris, 15 April 1537


• Wyatt to His Son Thomas [Spain, Summer 1537?]


• Part III: Diplomatic Correspondence


• Introduction


• (Instructions A) Henry VIII to Thomas Wyatt [England, 12 March 1537]


• Wyatt to Viscount Lisle, Barbastro, 16 October 1537


• Wyatt's Memorandum for Dudley [Barbastro?, on or just after 10 November 1537]


• Wyatt to Viscount Lisle, Barcelona, 7 February 1538


• Wyatt's Memorandum for Henry VIII [England, early June 1538?]


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Hythe, 21 June 1538


• Wyatt to Bonner, Valladolid, 22 September 1538


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Toledo [9 November 1538]


• Wyatt's Memorandum for Hoby [Toledo, early December 1538]


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Toledo, 2 January 1539


• Wyatt to Bonner, Toledo, 23 February 1539


• Wyatt to Bonner, Toledo, 3 March 1539


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Toledo, [mid-March]-18 March 1539


• (Instructions B) Henry VIII to Thomas Wyatt [England, 15 November 1539]


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Blois, 2 December 1539


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Blois, 16 December 1539


• Wyatt and Tate to Henry VIII, Paris, 25 December 1539


• Wyatt to Cromwell [Paris, 30? December 1539]


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Paris, 7 January 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Brussels, 22 January 1540


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Brussels, 3 February 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Brussels, 3 February 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Brussels, 10 February 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Brussels, 14 February 1540


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Brussels, 25 February 1540


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Ghent, 9 March 1540


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Ghent, 12 March 1540


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Ghent, 14 March 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Ghent, 21 March 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Ghent, 2 April 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Ghent, 5 April 1540


• Wyatt to Cromwell, Ghent, 12 April 1540


• Wyatt to Henry VIII, Ghent, 16 April 1540


• Wyatt to [Cromwell] [England, between 26 May and 1 June 1540]


• Part Four: Treason Trial Documents


• Introduction


• Wyatt's Declaration


• [The Tower, Winter 1541]


• Wyatt's Defence


• [The Tower, Spring 1541?]


• Additional Material


• Coda


• (Appendix A) Dudley's Memorandum


• (Appendix B) Bonner's Accusations


• (Appendix C) Hoby's Memorandum


• (Appendix D) Wyatt's Reckoning


• Endmatter


• Descriptions


• Works Cited


• Biographies


• Glossary


• OED Antedatings

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