Tuesday, October 24, 2006

News at Eleven: One wishes [Henry Howard, Earl of] Surrey had had

the sense to see his true vocation was poetry--for which, as Childs shows, he had very considerable talent. The poems show us, pathetically, a man who for all his vainglory was haunted by a sense of loneliness, separation and unworthiness.

from The Guardian: Tudor attitudes

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