ENGL 311 Lecture 4: ENGL311 (4)

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 311
• Professor: Brian Trehearne

Document Summary

W(cid:455)att (cid:449)as (cid:271)or(cid:374) at alli(cid:374)gto(cid:374) castle, ke(cid:374)t, e(cid:374)gla(cid:374)d, a(cid:374)d edu(cid:272)ated at t. He held various positions at court and served on diplomatic missions to france, Although he was knight in 1535, his position as a courtier was never secure. Imprisoned in 1534 for brawling and perhaps sexual misconduct (he had separated from his wife, elizabeth brooke, although they had 2 children), he was again imprisoned after a quarrel with the duke of suffolk, in 1536. Some have linked this imprisonment also with the fall of. W(cid:455)att"s poe(cid:373)s (cid:272)ir(cid:272)ulated i(cid:374) manuscript during his lifetime, in some cases with corrections in his own hand. 97 of them were printed, along with poems by henry howard, earl of urre(cid:455), i(cid:374) ri(cid:272)hard tottel"s mis(cid:272)elle(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:894)1557(cid:895). Tottel praised the (cid:862)(cid:449)eighti(cid:374)ess of the deep(cid:449)itted ir tho(cid:373)as w(cid:455)att the elder"s verse(cid:863) i(cid:374) the prefa(cid:272)e, (cid:271)ut regularized the (cid:373)eter of (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) of w(cid:455)att"s poe(cid:373)s i(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:455)s that (cid:373)oder(cid:374) editors have rejected.