A Critical Edition of the Compoete Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

This book draws on all known versions of Surrey's poems with evaluation, introduction and annotations. Surrey helped bring Petrarah's 'Canzoniere' into the mainstream of English poetic practice; he invented the 'English sonnet' form that would be used by Shakespeare; he helped establish the English tradition of psalm-paraphrase, and his translations from Virgil set the standard for subsequent renderings of Roman classics into English Until now there has been no reliable text of his verse.