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portada The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.1x15.2x2.5 cm
Weight
0.57 kg.
ISBN13
9781503607002
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The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt

Peter Murphy (Author) · Stanford University Press · Hardcover

The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt - Murphy, Peter

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Synopsis "The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt"

Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells--in vivid and compelling detail--of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII's court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the "best" English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.

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