Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of

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Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (1517–47) English poet. Like his cousin Catherine Howard, he died on the scaffold – a victim of the bloody power politics of Henry VIII's court. Surrey wrote some of the earliest English sonnets and, with his translation of two books of the Aeneid by Virgil, introduced blank verse into English poetry.

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