Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of
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Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of (by courtesy) (?1517–47), poet, was the son of Thomas Howard (afterwards third duke of Norfolk). He was with the army during the war with France (1544–6) and was commander of Boulogne, 1545–6. He was accused of various minor offences, but tried and executed on the charge of treasonably quartering the royal arms. His works consist of sonnets and poems in various metres notable for their elegance of construction. His sonnets were predominantly in the ‘English’ form (a b a b c d c d e f e f g g), later to be used by Shakespeare, which appears to have been his invention. (See
sonnet.) A still more durable innovation was his use of blank verse in his translation of the
Aeneid, Bks 2 and 4. Forty of his poems were printed in
Tottel's Miscellany (1557).
Nashe and
Drayton built up a picture of Surrey as the languishing lover of ‘Geraldine’ ( Elizabeth, daughter of the ninth earl of Kildare); but he seems to have done no more than address a single sonnet to this lady, possibly when she was as young as nine.
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The erotic politics of grief in Surrey's "so crewell prison".(Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and mourning are central to the poetic career of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Surrey's elegies for dead male friends are his best...which Surrey mourns the death of his boyhood friend Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, is commonly seen as...
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Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Henry VIII's Last Victim The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Jessie Childs Jonathan Cape 416 pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0224063251 HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517...
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Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; W. A. Sessions, Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life Oxford and New York: Oxford University...448 pp. $95. ISBN: 0-19-818624-X Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, has puzzled scholars. Although praised...
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Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/22/2007; 503 words
; Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Jessie Childs. Jonathan Cape. [pounds...the last person to be butchered under Henry VIII's tyranny: the King died nine...
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Biography Jerry Brotton on a poet and dandy who tasted both the glamour and the danger of Henry viii's court
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey BY JESSIE CHILDS JONATHAN CAPE, pounds...0870 428 4115 To understand the life of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, go to Tate...
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Books: Henry never spared a man in his anger, or a woman in his lust Prince of darkness? Frank McLynn longs for a tougher approach to a crazed monarch
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/17/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Buckingham; Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He also executed all those...Norfolk, Wolsey and Lord Thomas Howard cheated the headman only because...they opposed his heresy, but Henry's "religious" murders had...
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When being clever could get you killed.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 11/19/2006; 700+ words
; Byline: LUCY MOORE Henry VIII's Last Victim: Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey by Jessie Childs Jonathan Cape [pounds sterling...veneer of early-modern sophistication, Henry VIII's court was in many ways a primitive...
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Power, treason and the best legs in court; HISTORY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/20/2009; 700+ words
; ...she meant by 'virtue'. Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, had...waiting on purpose to catch Henry's eye. So this put him in a...the Duke and his son and heir, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were in the Tower. Surrey was...
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Letters
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/16/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Court, Dingwall Road, Croydon, Surrey Sir: Mr Malim mentions the influence...marriage) was my ancestor Sir Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547), who, as well...Edinburgh, 1856). Nicholas Howard Johnby Hall, Penrith, Cumbria...
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EXHIBITIONS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Henry's ensuing break from Rome...Holbein's drawings of the court of Henry VIII, temporarily on loan from...portrait of the ill- fated poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, with his long oval face and...
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Henry Howard Surrey, earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Howard Surrey, earl of 1517?-1547, English poet; son of Thomas Howard, 3d duke of Norfolk. His irascibility and continuous vaunting of...
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Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (1517–47) English poet. Like his cousin Catherine Howard , he died on the scaffold –...of the bloody power politics of Henry VIII's court. Surrey wrote some of the earliest English...
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Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of (by courtesy) (?1517–47), poet, was the son of Thomas Howard (afterwards third duke of Norfolk...Nashe and Drayton built up a picture of Surrey as the languishing lover of ‘...
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Henry Howard Northampton, earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Howard Northampton, earl of , 1540-1614, English courtier; son of the poet, Henry Howard, earl of Surrey; member of the powerful Howard family. His public career...
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Henry Howard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Howard see Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of .
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