This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...wherein with m6 he fought, Oft fn my face he ddth his bdnner rest." Tottel's Misc., p. 8. From the comparative fewness in examples of the earliest type of verse construction, it is evident that Wyatt very soon passed to this second stage, and that the poems cast in the. style of The long love are still among the early compositions. The development of Wyatt's system was of course gradual; hence we find verses characteristic of either period intruding among those which represent another. Having recognized then the gradual development of Wyatt's skill in his progress from 1 Compare Alscher, Sir Thomas Wyatt, etc., Wiener Beitrage, i. 77. the rougher work of the earliest period to that of the third, the period of his best and most harmonious work, we are provided with a means for deciding which among his poems we may call his earliest; we then pass on to the comparison of the others, relying on our interpretation of the poems and any chance peculiarity of metre or of form that may distinguish them. As the poems are arranged in groups, they will be classified according to their stanza form; this plan will enable us to avoid some confusion in determining the relation of the poems to one another within the groups, and at the same time help us to trace the prevalence of special forms at particular periods. EARLIEST POEMS. Jfc. N. T. A. / Avising the bright beams 10 40 11 J Ever mine hap is slack 12 68 13 Sonnets-Love and Fortune and my.... 12 69 13 V Like to these unmeasurable.... 13 70 15 Ottava (For shamefast harm 65 82 165 Ritna. Vulcan begat me 65 82 166 Rhyme Like as the bird 47 225 4 Royal. ) abab Absence absenting 258--142 It is probable that Wyatt had written poems earlier than those which compose this group, but these bear all the marks of appre...
