Brattishness
Colin Burrow: Henry Howard, 11 November 1999
Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life
by W.A. Sessions.
Oxford, 448 pp., £60, March 1999,9780198186243 Show More
by W.A. Sessions.
Oxford, 448 pp., £60, March 1999,
“... I stand the bitter night In my window, where I may see Before the windes how the cloudes flee. Lo what a mariner love hath made me! As others embrace, she looks out of the window, a mariner just in a poetic conceit. Surrey is the only early Tudor poet to explore this form of feminine pathos – waiting and desiring alone – and it runs through the poems he ... ”
