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Author Murphy, Peter T. (Peter Thomas), 1959- author

Title The long public life of a short private poem : reading and remembering Thomas Wyatt / Peter Murphy
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Series Square one : first-order questions in the humanities
Square one (Series)
Contents Thomas Wyatt writes a poem and shows it to others -- A century of learning, and the invention of literature -- More learning, the British Library, and the song of the professor -- Making it big, and coming to America
Summary Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells--in vivid and compelling detail--of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 03, 2019)
Subject Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542. They flee from me.
Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542 -- Appreciation -- History
SUBJECT Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542 fast
Subject Sonnets, English -- History and criticism
Poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Art appreciation
Sonnets, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019006186
ISBN 9781503609297
1503609294