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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG (1516/1517–19 January 1547) was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person to have been executed at the insistence of King Henry VIII .
Sir Thomas Wyatt contributed 96 poems to Tottel's Miscellany.. The collection comprises mostly the works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Thomas Wyatt the Elder. Both were heavily influenced by Italian poetry, although Wyatt's meter would be adapted to conventional English iambic stress by Tottel.
The first known use of blank verse in English was by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his translation of the Aeneid (composed c. 1540; published posthumously, 1554–1557 [3]). He may have been inspired by the Latin original since classical Latin verse did not use rhyme, or possibly he was inspired by Ancient Greek verse or the Italian verse ...
Henry Howard (priest) (1795–1868), dean of Lichfield; Henry Howard (architect) (1818–1884), designer of landmarks in New Orleans and Louisiana; Henry Howard (Methodist) (1859–1933), Australian preacher; Henry Newman Howard (1861–1929), English poet and dramatist; T. Henry Howard (1849–1923), chief of the staff of the Salvation Army
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are both known for their translations of Petrarch's sonnets from Italian into English. While Surrey tended to use the English sonnet form in his own work, reserving the Petrarchan form for his translations of Petrarch, Wyatt made extensive use of the Italian sonnet form in the poems of his that ...
Two poetical illustrations of Howard's works were written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.The first, of The Hours, in her Poetical Catalogue of Paintings in The Literary Gazette (1823), [9] and the second, of Fairies on the Sea Shore in her Poetical Catalogue of Modern Paintings in her 1825 volume The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches, [10] this latter poem reappearing in ...
Edited by John Fuller.The poets included were: Thomas Wyatt - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey - Giles Fletcher - Edmund Spenser - Walter Ralegh - Fulke Greville - Philip Sidney - Arthur Gorges - George Chapman - Henry Constable - Samuel Daniel - Michael Drayton - Joshua Sylvester - William Shakespeare - John Davies of Hereford - Thomas Campion - William Alabaster - Barnabe Barnes - John Davies ...
Henry Howard Brownell (February 6, 1820 – 1872) was an American poet and historian. ... (1864). A selection of his Poems, revised by himself, appeared in 1866.