Who is Sir Thomas Wyatt?

  • (noun): English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542).
    Synonyms: Wyatt, Wyat, Sir Thomas Wyat

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Thomas The Rhymer - Ballads
... Musicologists have traced the ballad, "Thomas the Rhymer", back at least as far as the 13th century ... Several different variants of the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer exist, most having the same basic theme ... They tell how Thomas either kissed, had sex, or slept with the Queen of Elfland and rode with her or was otherwise transported to Fairyland ...
Elizabeth Darrell (maid-of-honour) - Thomas Wyatt
... year 1537, Elizabeth became the mistress of the poet and cousin of the late queen Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) ... He was legally married to Elizabeth Brooke, the mother of his children Thomas and Anne, but they were separated and she was living in adultery with another man ... Elizabeth bore Sir Thomas three sons, Henry (who died in early infancy), Francis (born in 1540 and took the surname of Darrell), and Edward, who was ...
Thomas Kyd
... Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558 buried 15 August 1594) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures ... Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins (an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by ...
Cooling, Kent - Cooling Castle
... Sir John de Cobham, third Baron Cobham inherited a 700 acre (2.8 km²) estate at Cobham from his father Henry in 1335, originally acquired by the de Cobhams in 1241 ... Sir John de Cobham died in a Monastery in Maiden-Bradley in 1408 ... well proportioned half-round towers and entrance built by Thomas Crump of Maidstone ...
The Star Beast - Editions
... In this chapter, John Thomas rereads the entries in his great-grandfather's diary of how Lummox was found ... John Thomas knew why.. ... The rest of the page summarizes John Thomas' grandfather's family history, discussing the first John Thomas Stuart, who had retired as a sea captain ...

Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas wyatt, wyatt and/or thomas:

    Forget not yet the tried intent
    Of such a truth as I have meant;
    My great travail so gladly spent
    Forget not yet!
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Patience, do what they will
    To work me woe or spite,
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    A great deal of us is together, and we can but abide by it, and steer our courses to meet soon. John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with hopeful heart.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)