ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Songes and Sonettes, usually called Tottel’s Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. First published by Richard Tottel in 1557 in London, it ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -John Donne’s (1572–1631) Songs and Sonnets is a group of some 54 love poems that were published posthumously in the 1633 edition of Donne’s Poems. They were first grouped together in print under the heading “Songs and Sonets” in the second edi-tion (1635).

Detailed explanation-4: -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).