Akadémia Kiadó

Much in opposition to New Historicist framing of Sir Thomas Wyatt as a puppet of Henrician power games and a prisoner of his own fate Krisztina Szalay's book demonstrates what creative energies had sprung from this poet's unceasing fight for personal freedom. Thus in itself would make him a far more interesting figure than is commonly thought had he not been a truly idiosyncratic master of diction and poetical form. By analysing some representative poems of his the essay portrays Wyatt as a poet for all seasons.