1. Sixteenth Century Poetry and Its Religious Views
... clearly does not seem to forbid the Christian valediction of mourning. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Wyatt's junior by fourteen years, paid posthumous tribute to the poet. Surrey's poem makes oblique reference to Wyatt's "witnesse of faith" as part of an explicitly Christian epitaph in which piety counts more than courtship : "But to the heavens that simple is fled | Which left ... ...
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- Grade Level: High School