ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt also spelled Wyat, (born 1503, Allington, near Maidstone, Kent, Eng.-died Oct. 6, 1542, Sherborne, Dorset), poet who introduced the Italian sonnet and terza rima verse form and the French rondeau into English literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sonnet was introduced to England, along with other Italian verse forms, by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, in the 16th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wyatt wrote the first English sonnets and true satires, projecting through them the most important political issues of the period: the Protestant Reformation and the centralization of state power under the reigns of the Tudors.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Whoso List to Hunt’: This poem is a classic example of an Italian sonnet, only it’s written in English. But that’s not why ‘Whoso List to Hunt’ has become one of Wyatt’s most famous works.

Detailed explanation-5: -The father of the English sonnet is Sir Thomas Wyatt, a writer who lived about 500 years ago and introduced the concept of the sonnet to English writers.