LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Sir Thomas More
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Thomas Wyatt
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Whoso List to Hunt” is a Petrarchan sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt. It is partially a translation and partially an imitation of Francesco Petrarch’s Sonnet 190.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sir Thomas Wyatt’s ‘Whoso List to Hunt’ is one of the earliest sonnets in all of English literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -’Whoso List to Hunt’ by Sir Thomas Wyatt is one of the first sonnets of English literature. This poem is not about hunting a hind or female deer. Rather it’s about the difficulty to win the heart of the lady to whom the poet once gifted his heart.
Detailed explanation-4: -His most famous poems are “Whoso List to Hunt, ” “They Flee From Me, ” “What No, Perdie, ” “Lux, My Fair Falcon, ” and “Blame Not My Lute.” Wyatt also wrote three satires in which he adopted the Italian terza rima into English (“Thomas Wyatt, ” 2013).
Detailed explanation-5: -What poem is “Whoso list to hunt” a translation of? MERWIN: It’s a translation of a sonnet from Petrarch-a lovely, dreamy, medieval, allegorical poem in which someone sees a white deer and decides to leave what he’s doing, his whole daily life, to follow the white deer, which eludes him.