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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.
Mount Surrey as a legend lingered into the later Renaissance. In prose, Thomas Nashe had fully textualized the poet's life by the early 1590s and, as with many cult narratives, by giving false historical facts but getting the essential interpretation right.
John Byro tried to explain that his surrey was useless without a horse. Pat came Khosrove’s catchward “Pay no attention to it.” This phrase is repeated when the farmer complained that his left leg hurt him.
Mar 5, 2024 · It’s World Book Day and to celebrate Surrey’s great literary history we’ve turned back the pages to look at 14 famous authors – from Aldous Huxley to Jane Austen – who have lived and found inspiration here.
The Earl of Surrey became close to the Tudor king thanks to family links, but he soon paid the price
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was a poet who, with Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–42), introduced into England the styles and metres of the Italian humanist poets and so laid the foundation of a great age of English poetry.
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Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (SUR-ee), was born about 1517 into one of the most powerful noble families of sixteenth century England. His father, Sir Thomas Howard, was made third duke of Norfolk...
