ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Standard literary history says sonnets were introduced to English by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the 1520s and 30s, and first widely circulated in English in the 1557 publication of Tottel’s Miscellany.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature.