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Skilled in international diplomacy, imprisoned without charges, at ease jousting in tournaments, and adept at writing courtly poetry, Wyatt was admired and envied by his contemporaries. The distinction between his public and private life was not always clearly marked, for he spent his life at various courts, where he wrote for a predominantly aristocratic audience who shared common interests. Through and in this milieu he created a new English poetics by experimenting with meter and voice and by grafting Continental and classical forms and ideas to English traditions. Wyatt wrote the first English sonnets and true satires, projecting through them the most important political issues of the period: the Protestant Reformation and the centralization of state power under the reigns of the Tudors. For this combination of formalistic innovation and historical reflection, he is today considered the most important poet of the first half of the sixteenth century.  \nBorn around 1503 at Allington Castle in Kent, England, Wyatt was the son of Sir Henry Wyatt of Yorkshire and Anne Skinner Wyatt of Surrey. Imprisoned more than once by Richard III, Sir Henry had become under Henry VII a powerful, wealthy privy councillor, and he remained so after Henry VIII’s accession. John Leland writes that Wyatt attended Cambridge, and although there is no record to confirm the statement, it seems plausible that he did. It is often assumed that in 1516 he entered Saint John’s College, Cambridge, but his name may have been confused with another Wyatt matriculating there. After marriage to Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Thomas, Lord Cobham, in 1520 and the birth of a son in 1521, Wyatt progressed in his career at court, as esquire of the king’s body and clerk of the king’s jewels (1524). He probably acquired these posts through a combination  \nof innate abilities and his father’s influence. Stephen Miriam Foley suggests in Sir Thomas Wyatt (1990) that the positions were more significant than their titles might imply, for they helped to entrench him in the king’s household. Members of that household sought power, struggling with the king’s councillors to influence the king.  \nSometime after the birth of his son, perhaps around 1525, Wyatt seems to have become estranged from his wife; all editors and biographers assume the reason to be her infidelity, for such were the rumors during his life. The Spanish Calendar, for instance, gives this detail: “Wyatt had cast [his wife] away on account of adultery.” It is certain that in 1526, when Sir Thomas Cheney embarked for the French court on an official delegation, Wyatt accompanied him.  \nAround 1527 Queen Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, asked Wyatt to translate Petrarch’s De remediis utriusque fortunae. Wyatt translated in its place a piece he found less tedious, Guillaume Budé’s Latin version of Plutarch’s De tranquillitate et securitate animi. It was soon published by Richard Pynson as The Quiet ofMind (1528), and as several scholars have pointed out, the echoes of “quiet mind” in Wyatt’s poetry indicate that the piece continued to hold philosophical importance for him. From around 1528 or 1529 to November 1530, Wyatt held the post of high marshal of Calais, and in 1532 he became commissioner of the peace in Essex. Around 1536 Wyatt formed an attachment to Elizabeth Darrell, who became his mistress for life. Some of his poems, such as “A face that should content me wondrous well” and “So feeble is the thread,” almost surely allude to this relationship.  \nThe woman with whom Wyatt has been notoriously associated, however, is Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII. Careful scholars acknowledge that although Wyatt’s poetry is suggestive, the hard evidence for his role as Boleyn’s lover, or scorned lover, is so bedeviled by legend and rumor as to affect even the most caut","cbCaijsNMNozLPNs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijsNMNozLPNs","pdf",364651,"English","# Overview\n## Literary innovation\n## Life and court roles\n## Major relationships and controversies\n## Political context and influence","[{\"question\":\"Why is Sir Thomas Wyatt considered important in early sixteenth-century poetry?\",\"answer\":\"Wyatt is regarded as the most important poet of the first half of the sixteenth century because he created a new English poetics by experimenting with meter and voice and combining Continental and classical ideas with English traditions.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of political issues did Wyatt’s poetry address?\",\"answer\":\"Through his formal innovation and historical reflection, Wyatt’s poetry projected key political issues of the period, especially the Protestant Reformation and the centralization of state power under the Tudors.\"},{\"question\":\"What role did translation play in Wyatt’s work?\",\"answer\":\"Wyatt was asked to translate Petrarch, and instead produced a translation from Guillaume Budé’s Latin version of Plutarch. 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