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Essay / A Brief Look at Sir Thomas Wyatt - 875
« Noli Me Tangee; for Ceasaris, I am,” suggest unrequited love. This term represents the feeling of being completely, hopelessly in love with someone, knowing that your feelings will never reach them. This explains part of the life of Sir Thomas Wyatt. He attended St. Johns College, Cambridge University. Wyatt also served several overseas assignments. He also performed various duties at home. Wyatt also appeared in court numerous times during his life. He was also famous for his poem “Whose List to Hunt.” The son of Henry and Anne Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt was born at Allington Castle in Kent in 1503. At the age of 17 he named Lord Cabham's daughter. Wyatt attended St. John's College, Cambridge University in 1515. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1518. He then received his Master of Arts degree in 1522. His early marriage to Elizabeth Brooke, the daughter of Lord Cabham , turned out to be unfortunate. The marriage ended in 1526, with Wyatt's repudiation of his wife for adultery. After having his two children, Thomas and Bess, Wyatt separated from his wife. They were not reconciled and divorced until 1541. Sir Thomas Wyatt also carried out several missions abroad. Most of Wyatt's foreign missions were to King Henry VIII. In 1525, Wyatt participated in the Christmas Tournament at Greenwich before King Henry VIII. This was the beginning of Wyatt's diplomatic career. Later, in 1526, he accompanied Sir Thomas Chaney on a diplomatic mission to France. Wyatt returned home in May or June 1527. Also in 1527, Wyatt accompanied Sir John Russell to Waller 3Venice and to the papal court in Rome. The following New Year he presented his translation of De tranquil...... middle of paper ...... my joy is the cause of this conflict. References Barrow, Colin, “The Experience of Exclusion: Literature and politics during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. "In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Ed. DavidWallace, 793-820, Cambridge, United Kingdom 1999Greene, Thomas M. The Light at Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry. New Haven, CT. 1982 Dubriow, Heather, Echoes of Desire. English Petrarchism and its counter-discoveries. Ithaca, NY 1995 Greenblatt, Stephen and the Self-Fashioning of the Renaissance: FromMore to Shakespeare, 115-156, Chicago 1980I Find No Peacehttp://www.poemhunter.com/sir-thomas-wyatt/poems/Is It Possiblehttp :// www.poemhunter.com/sir-thomas-wyatt/poems/The Anne Boleyn Files: Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, October 11, 2010, from www.theanneboleyfiles.com