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"Tom o' Bedlam" is the title of an anonymous poem in the "mad song" genre, written in the voice of a homeless "Bedlamite". The poem was probably composed at the beginning of the 17th century. In How to Read and Why Harold Bloom called it "the greatest anonymous lyric in the [English] language." [1]
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The last ten poems consist of a coda of 4 poems in elegiac couplets, 3 in hendecasyllables, 2 in scazons, and 1 poem in elegiac couplets. [14] Kloss argues that if the poems were a miscellaneous anthology, they would presumably have contained poems in other metres too, such as the iambic (84 and 87), aeolic (85, 89) or hexameter (95) metres ...
Anon in Love is a cycle of six songs by William Walton, originally for tenor and guitar, setting anonymous poems from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The cycle was commissioned by the tenor Peter Pears and the guitarist Julian Bream and first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1960.
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The volume consisted of 271 poems, none of which had ever been printed before. Songs and Sonettes was the first of the poetic anthologies that became popular by the end of the 16th century, and is considered to be Tottel's 'great contribution to English letters', [ 2 ] as well as the first to be printed for the pleasure of the common reader. [ 3 ]