Poetry Criticism | Wyatt, Sir Thomas ca. - Jonanthan Z. Kamholtz (essay date 1978)

Jonanthan Z. Kamholtz (essay date 1978)

SOURCE: "Thomas Wyatt's Poetry: The Politics of Love," in Criticism, Vol. XX, No. 4, Fall, 1978, pp. 349-65.

[In the following essay, Kamholtz argues that the interplay between politics and love in Wyatt's poetry expresses the limits of Henry VW's court.]

Wyatt's "He is not ded that sometyme hath a fall" examines various natural consolations for political disgrace.

HE is not ded that sometyme hath a fall.
The Sonne retometh that was vnder the clowd
And when fortune hath spitt oute all her gall
I trust good luck to me shalbe allowd.
For I have sene a shippe into haven fall
After the storme hath broke boeth mast and shrowd;

And eke the willowe that stowpeth with the wynde
Doeth ryse again, and greater wode doeth bynd.¹

Wyatt, closely following his source in Serafino, searches for a...

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