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LEVIATHAN (1651) Abraham Bosse and Thomas Hobbes BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON
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GREAT WORKS
English illustration is a strong tradition. There are many books
that can hardly be imagined without their images. Edward Lear's
nonsense rhymes come with his nonsense drawings, and Beatrix
Potter's tales are more than half-told by her watercolours. The
world of Lewis Carroll's Alice books is partly the creation of John
Tenniel's pictures - and ditto Dickens' Oliver Twist and George
Cruikshank's.
William Blake is the supreme joiner of text and image. Meanwhile,
there are many less graphic artists who have used their talents to
visualise Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress and ...
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In search of Holbein's Thomas Wyatt the younger: Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger--who was beheaded for treason in 1554--was thought to be known only from copies. Roy Strong reveals that this innovatory masterpiece survives.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...42), the major poet at the Henrician court...drape, reflecting the poet's taste for the...lt;pre> Sir Thomas Wyatt's favourite...on the reverse the Wyatt family arms as a woman...the daughter of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne...married the younger Sir ...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Niccolo) Foscolo, poet, 1827; Katherine...and actor, 1964; Sir Ralph David Richardson...independent, 1970; Sir John Betjeman became...TOMORROW Births: Sir George Williams...1925. Deaths: Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet and diplomat...
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Sonnets as autobiography
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...if he is a politician. Poets get no special dispensation...That is the story of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel...heated imagination. Take Sir Thomas Wyatt, poet and courtier in Henry...the sonnet in which the poet bewails the fact that...
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Love, death, and the changing of the seasons.
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...s love poems is the poet's skill, his art and...Renaissance. Starting with Sir Thomas Wyatt, many poets attempted the sonnet...social realities, as in Wyatt's, Who list her hunt...from the nobility, the poet mature and lowly, a...
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The Tudor Dynasty.(what one book)
Magazine article from: Bookmarks
; ...the tragic story of Anne Boleyn through the eyes of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder. THE SECRET LION The Spymaster Chronicles...poetry comes this evocative novel woven around the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt's love for Anne Boleyn. What makes Dunn's portrait...
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Two faced courtiers of crooks like Conrad
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...biography of the disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black. But Sir Peregrine Worsthorne was less jubilant. "Many of the...They flee from me that sometime did me seek," the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt lamented, almost 500 years ago. "I have seen them...
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Earl of Romney, a silent Lord, dead at 93
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Norfolk, he was the second son of the 4th earl whose family were prominent merchants. A descendant of the Tudor poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, he was distantly related to the Duchess of York, the former Sarah Ferguson. Educated at the elite Sherborne...
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Obituaries in the News
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Norfolk, he was the second son of the 4th earl whose family were prominent merchants. A descendant of the Tudor poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, he was distantly related to the Duchess of York, the former Sarah Ferguson. ___ George Mauner STATE COLLEGE...
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A Hoopster's Dream // Ex-Bull Walker Releases `Shield'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Walker to adjust to the fast life of Hollywood. In his book, Walker writes of living by the creed of English poet Sir Thomas Wyatt: "If you stop and listen, you can hear everything." "It was difficult for me because I've always been a...
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Earl of Romney, a Silent Lord, Dies at 93
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Norfolk, he was the second son of the 4th earl whose family were prominent merchants. A descendant of the Tudor poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, he was distantly related to the Duchess of York, the former Sarah Ferguson. Educated at the elite Sherborne...
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