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The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt

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"Meticulously maps the eddies and currents that have defined this vexing poem's vexed history of neglect, rediscovery, and canonization . . . grippingly unusual." —Renaissance Quarterly


Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in countless poetry anthologies. How did it survive?



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