THE POETRY OF SIR THOMAS WYATT : A SELECTION AND A STUDY by Tillyard, E. M. W - 1949

London: Chatto and Windus, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. SECOND IMPRESSION. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Sunning to spine. Foxing to endpapers. Text age-tanned. Gilt lettering lightly debossed to spine of orange cloth-covered boards. A collection of 60 poems. List of abbreviations. Clean, solid binding. 179 pp with notes and index to first lines. Sir Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century English ambassador and lyrical poet at the court of Henry VIII. He is credited with introducing the sonnet into English, and for being one of Anne Boleyn's suitors.