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Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of
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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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SurreyHenryHowardearlof.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SurreyHenryHowardearlof.html |
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Henry Howard Surrey, earl of
Henry Howard Surrey, earl of 1517?–1547, English poet; son of Thomas Howard, 3d duke of Norfolk. His irascibility and continuous vaunting of his descent from Edward I resulted in his imprisonment on several occasions. Eventually he was convicted of treason on a trumped-up charge and executed. He introduced blank verse to English in translating two books of Vergil's Aeneid. Along with his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt, he popularized the Petrarchan sonnet form in English. He was the only poet mentioned on the title page of the well-known miscellany (1557) of Richard Tottel . |
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"Henry Howard Surrey, earl of." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Henry Howard Surrey, earl of." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Surrey-H.html "Henry Howard Surrey, earl of." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Surrey-H.html |
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Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of
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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"Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-SurreyHenryHowardEarlof.html "Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-SurreyHenryHowardEarlof.html |
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