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

by Peter Murphy and Peter Murphy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609286
• ISBN13: 9781503609280
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"