Graven with diamonds: the many lives of Thomas Wyatt: poet, lover, statesman, and spy in the court of Henry VIII
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In this thrillingly entertaining book, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry VIII's reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry VIII's most glamorous and enigmatic subject: Sir Thomas Wyatt.Poet, statesman, spy, lover of Anne Boleyn and favorite both of Henry VIII and his sinister minister Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant Wyatt was admired and envied in equal measure. His love poetry began as risqué entertainment for ambitious men and women at the slippery top of the court. But when the axe began to fall and Henry VIII's laws made his subjects fall silent in terror, Wyatt's poetic skills became a way to survive. He saw that a love poem was a place where secrets could hide.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- King of England Henry VIII
Nicola
Shulman
Thomas
Wyatt - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781586422080
- Release date
- 2013
