Tottel's Miscellany
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Songes and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. First published by Richard Tottel in 1557 in London, it ran to many editions in the sixteent
Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey is generously represented in the miscellany, and credited with creating the English (or Shakespearean) form of sonnet.
Sir Thomas Wyatt contributed 96 poems to Tottel's Miscellany.
Thomas Vaux: one of his only two poems from the miscellany is misquoted in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person to have been executed at the insisten
Tottel's Miscellany
…publication of law textbooks but his biggest contribution to English literature would come in the form of the anthology of poetry. He also gave the public Surrey's translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil's Aeneid, which is the earliest known example of English blank verse. He is responsible too for…
Portrait, c. 1542
Sketch of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, showing a striking resemblance to his father, the Duke of Norfolk, created by Hans Holbein the Younger. c. 1530s. National Portrait Gallery
Frances de Vere, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535
Tomb of Surrey and his wife, Frances de Vere, displaying the coats of arms of the Howard and De Vere families