biography
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Wyatt, Sir Thomas
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known as the Elder
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| lived:
| (1503–42)
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| biography:
| Poet and courtier, born in Allington, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, was warmly received at court, knighted (1536), made high sheriff of Kent (1537), and went on several diplomatic missions. He was a student of foreign languages, translated the poems of Petrarch from the Italian, and with Surrey introduced the sonnet form into English literature. In 1557 his poems, published by Richard Tottel in Tottel's Miscellany, helped to establish the rondeau, lyrics with irregular speech rhythms and satires in heroic couplets, into English literature. His portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London. |
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