ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The first edition of this work appeared on 5 June 1557 with the title Songes and Sonettes Written By the Ryght Honorable Lord Henry Howard, late Earle of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt the Elder and others. The volume consisted of 271 poems, none of which had ever been printed before.

Detailed explanation-2: -The elements of the Wyatt/Surrey sonnet are: a quatorzain, written with a Petrarchan octave followed by an envelope quatrain ending with a rhyming couplet. metric, primarily iambic pentameter. the rhyme scheme is abbaabba cddc ee.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wyatt’s and Surrey’s poems were among the first lyrics from the courtiers’ manuscript tradition to find their way into mass-production print in the form of the poetry collection traditionally called “Tottel’s Miscellany” (1557).

Detailed explanation-4: -The short poems were printed by Richard Tottel in his Songes and Sonettes, Written by the Ryght Honorable Lorde Henry Haward Late Earle of Surrey and Other (1557; usually known as Tottel’s Miscellany). “Other” included Wyatt, and critics from George Puttenham onward have coupled their names.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wyatt’s poems are short but fairly numerous. His 96 love poems appeared posthumously (1557) in a compendium called Tottel’s Miscellany. The most noteworthy are thirty-one sonnets, the first in English.