Introduction: The First Reformer?
'Sovendra du chaseur': Wyatt in France, French at the English
Court
'My galley charged': Wyatt in Italy
'So feble is the threde': Wyatt in Spayne
'Inward Sion': Wyatt in Jerusalem - The Penitential Psalms and
Soteriological Diplomacy
Conclusion: 'In Kent and Christendome': Wyatt in England
Bibliography
WILLIAM ROSSITER Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia.
One of this book's many virtues is its challenge to conventional
literary and historical periodizations. Rossiter demonstrates how
rich a medieval aesthetic persisted in Wyatt's poetry and how a
medieval understanding of statecraft shaped his work as a
'Renaissance' diplomat.
*COMMON KNOWLEDGE*
Wyatt Abroad exemplifies what literary interpretation informed by a
sound grasp of the textual tradition can do. . . . [S]cholars and
the critics of the famous division of kingdoms owe Rossiter
attention and, indeed, gratitude.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*
[Its] strengths lie in the close readings of specific poems in
their historical and critical settings as well as analyses of the
subtle changes Wyatt makes to the sources he translates and
adapts.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
[The] book moves in a direction toward which many scholars have
been pushing for years: that of confluence and the overcomnig of
the barriers between different disciplines with the goal of
providing a new vein of humanistic study.
*SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL*
This study deftly fuses literary biography, sensitive close
reading, and translation theory. . . . Rossiter is admirably
attentive to Wyatt's handling of sources, the deictic ambiguities
of his poetic idiom, and his reliance on suggestion, simulation,
and dissimulation.
*RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY*
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