the wyatt poem gets my vote.
On 1/15/06, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > But what about poor old Thomas Wyatt? He's the one I finally return to...
> >
> > Doug
>
> Yeah, Doug, and if it hadn't been for Wyatt, Sidney wouldn't have written as
> he did.
>
> But there are fewer Wyatt poems than are usually attributed to him -- I'd
> put it at about 200 rather than the 350 Muir includes in his edition.
> Mostly the contention doesn't touch the best poems (like, obviously, "They
> flee from me ...") but I'd exclude "In mourning wise since daily I increase
> ..." which a lot of people go a bundle on and attribute to Wyatt. I sort-of
> like it, but I don't think it's by Wyatt.
>
> But now I must go play me / with things that please me less, but less betray
> me.
>
> Robin
>
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