A Sonnet for a Former Princess
Between 1538 and 1543, the Tudor literary courtier Henry Parker, Lord Morley (about 1486-1556), presented the future queen Mary I with a New Year’s gift that included ‘an Italion ryme called soneto’ in English.[i]...
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Margaret Douglas’s Verse-Fashioning in the Henrician Court
Like most scholars I know, there is very little I can say about my field without immediately wanting to append, “…but that’s not quite right” or “from another perspective, though….”. This post focuses on...