A Critical Edition of the Complete Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Edited With Notes and Extensive Introduction by William McGaw
McGaw, William

Description

This is an entirely new and comprehensive edition of the Complete Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, edited by William McGaw. It offers an extensive introduction, a definitive text, four appendices, concise but thorough notes, select bibliography, annotated bibliography of sources, and a glossary. McGaw fills in a gap that scholars and critics have lamented for the past two decades and complements a full-scale biography published by William A. Sessions in 1999. Surrey was a preeminent courtier under King Henry VIII, and was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the two major Tudor poets (along with Sir Thomas Wyatt). He transformed the Petrarchan sonnet into its English form, created English blank verse, and he wrote the first personal elegy in English upon Wyatt’s death. No manuscript or early printed edition contains all of his work. Copy of only one poem definitely dates from his life, and copies of two further poems probably date from Surrey’s lifetime. Therefore, the canon of Surrey’s poetry has been established by the application of three fundamental principles: attribution to Surrey by a reliable source, inclusion with poems otherwise known to be by Surrey, and corroboration. This edition has been enhanced by more recent research and by access to more sources. As a result, there are fifty-nine poems, forty-four songs and sonnets, eleven Biblical paraphrases with two prologues, and two books of the Aeneid. Notable in the edition are the inclusion of two poems generally regarded as doubtful, the addition of two previously unknown or overlooked psalms, the relegation to an appendix of a further poem and the collation in the apparatus of further substantive extant versions.

Reviews

“McGaw’s edition presents us with a rare and precise accuracy.”
-Prof. William A. Sessions,
Georgia State University

“By way of William McGaw, a definitive edition of Surrey’s poems is at last available.”
-Prof. A. D. Cousins,
Macquarie University

“McGaw’s new edition consists of insightful observations about this poet, hitherto uncharted territory.”
-Prof. Deirdre Coleman,
University of Melbourne

Table of Contents

FOREWORD by William A. Sessions i PREFACE v INTRODUCTION ix Birthright x Education xiii Career xvi Influences xxii Legacy xxviii Time of Composition xxxv Method of Composition xlv Textual Analysis liii Canon lxxiii Copy Texts lxxxii Editorial Procedure lxxxv SIGLA xcvii MAJOR MODERN EDITIONS AND BIOGRAPHIES xcix SONGS AND SONNETS 1 BIBLICAL PARAPHRASES 59 TRANSLATIONS OF THE AENEID 88 APPENDICES A. The Authorship of ‘Gyrtt in my giltlesse gowne’ 161 B. Mary Fitzroy’s transcript of ‘O happy dames’ 167 C. Johannes Campensis, Ecclesiastes 1-V 169 D. Johannes Campensis, Psalms 8, 31, 51, 55, 73, 88 183 COMMENTARY 199 MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED SOURCES i. Collated Manuscript Sources 451 ii. Uncollated Manuscript Sources 469 iiii. Collated Printed Sources 473 iv. Uncollated Printed Sources 482 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY i. Texts 485 ii. Books 490 iii. Articles, Book Chapters, Dedications 494 GLOSSARY 503 GENERAL INDEX 511 INDEX OF FIRST LINES 535 THE POEMS Songs and Sonnets 1 When ragyng love with extreme payne 1 2 I that Ulisses yeres have spent 2 3 When youthe had ledd me half the race 3 4 As ofte as I behold and see 5 5 Geve place, ye lovers, here before 6 6 Although I had a check 8 7 Though I regarded not 9 8 O lothsome place, where I 11 9 Syns fortunes wrath envieth the welth 12 10 Brittle beautie, that nature made so fraile 13 11 The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes 14 12 Set me wheras the sonne dothe perche the grene 15 13 Love that doth raine and live within my thought 16 14 In Cipres, springes, wheras dame Venus dwelt 16 15 I never saw youe, madam, laye aparte 17 16 Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace 18 17 The golden gift that nature did thee geve 19 18 From Tuscan cam my ladies worthi race 19 19 The fansy which that I have served long 20 20 Yf he that erst the fourme so livelye drewe 21 21 The sonne hath twyse brought forthe the tender grene 21 22 Such waywarde wais hath love that most perte in discorde 23 23 When sommer toke in hand the winter to assail 26 24 If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine? 28 25 In winters just returne, when Boreas gan his raigne 31 26 To dearely had I bought my grene and youthfull yeres 33 27 Wrapt in my carelesse cloke, as I walke to and fro 34 28 Eache beast can chuse his feere according to his minde 36 29 Laid in my quyet bedd, in study as I weare 39 30 Th’Assyryans king, in peas with fowle desyre 40 31 The great Macedon that out of Perse chasyd 41 32 Wyat resteth here, that quicke coulde never rest 42 33 Dyvers thy death doo dyverslye bemone 43 34 In the rude age when scyence was not so rife 44 35 Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead 45 36 So crewell prison howe could betyde, alas 46 37 When Windesor walles sustained my wearied arme 48 38 London, hast thow accused me 49 39 O happy dames, that may enbrayes 51 40 Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exyle 53 41 My Ratclif, when thy rechlesse youth offendes 55 42 The stormes are past, these cloudes are overblowne 56 43 Of thy lyfe, Thomas, this compasse well mark 56 44 Warner, the thinges for to obtayne 58 Biblical Paraphrases 45 I Salamon, Davids sonne, King of Jerusalem 59 46 From pensif fanzies then, I gan my hart revoke 61 47 Like to the stereles boote that swerves with every wynde 64 48 When I be thought me well, under the restles soon 68 49 When that repentant teares hathe clensyd clere from ill 70 50 Thie name, O Lord, how greate is fownd before our sight! 73 51 In the, Lorde, have I hoped, let me not fele the blame 75 52 For thy greate mercies sake have mercy, Lorde, on me 78 53 Give eare to my suit, Lord, fromward hide not thy face 80 54 The soudden stormes that heave me to and froo 82 55 Thoughe, Lorde, to Israell thy graces plentuous be 83 56 Wher recheles youthe in a unquiet brest 85 57 Oh Lorde, uppon whose will dependeth my welfare 86 Translations of the Aeneid 58 They whisted all, with fixed face attent 88 59 But now the wounded quene, with hevy care

ISBN10:  0-7734-2917-4   ISBN13:  978-0-7734-2917-8    Pages:  652    Year:  2012   

Series: hors série Number: 0

Subject Areas:  16th Century Studies, British - Literature, British Studies, Last Name - H - Poetry, Renaissance Studies,

Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press

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