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a 16th-century English ambassador and lyrical poet. He is credited with introducing the sonnet into English literature. None of Wyatt's poems were published during his lifetime—the first book to feature his verse, Richard Tottel's Miscellany of 1557, was printed a full fifteen years after his death.
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Gadling: Originally, a companion, from the Old English gaed, fellowship + ling (diminutive personal suffix, as in da...
Grame: Anger; grief. Also, in the plural, troubles (in the 12th century, devils). Also graim, greme. Grame also wa...
Wanhope: Despair. Used since the 13th century; often in a religious sense, despair of salvation; then, in love poems...
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