A Brief Look at Sir Thomas Wyatt

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“Noli Me Tangee; for Ceasaris I am,” suggest unrequited love. This term stands for the feeling of being completely, hopelessly, desperately in love with someone, knowing that your feelings will never reach them. This explains a part of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s life. He attended St. Johns College, University of Cambridge. Wyatt also carried out several foreign missions. He also served various offices at home. Wyatt also had many court appearances in his life. He was also famous for his poem “Whose List to Hunt.”

Being the son of Henry and Anne Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt was born at Allington Castle in Kent in 1503. At the age of 17 he named the daughter of Lord Cabham. Wyatt attended St. John’s College, University of Cambridge in 1515. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1518. He later received his Master of Arts degree in 1522. His early marriage to Elizabeth Brooke who was the daughter of Lord Cabham proved to be unhappy. The marriage ended in 1526, with Wyatt’s repudiation of his wife on the ground of adultery. After she had his two children, Thomas and Bess, Wyatt separated from his wife. They were not reconciled or divorced until 1541.

Sir Thomas Wyatt also carried out several foreign missions. Most of the foreign missions Wyatt carried were for King Henry VIII. In 1525 Wyatt participated in the Christmas tournament at Greenwich before King Henry VIII. This was the beginning of Wyatt’s diplomatic carrier. Later in 1526 he accompanied Sir Thomas Chaney on a diplomatic mission to France. Wyatt returned home in May or June of 1527. Also in 1527 Wyatt accompanied Sir John Russell to

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Venice and the papal court in Rome. The following New Year he presented a tribute to Queen Katharine his translation of the De tranquil...

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... my delight is causer of this strife.

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Barrow, Colin, “The Experience of Exclusion: Literature and politics in the reigns of Henry VII

and Henry VIII. “In the Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Ed. David

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Greene, Thomas M. The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance poetry. New

Haven, Ct. 1982 Dubriow, Heather, Echoes of Desire. English petrarchism and its counter

Discoveries. Ithaca, NY 1995 Greenblatt, Stephen, and Renaissance self-fashioning: From

More to Shakespeare, 115-156, Chicago 1980

I Find No Peace

http://www.poemhunter.com/sir-thomas-wyatt/poems/

Is It Possible

http://www.poemhunter.com/sir-thomas-wyatt/poems/

The Anne Boleyn Files: Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, October 11, 2010, Retrieved from

www.theanneboleyfiles.com

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