The poem's female speaker explores her past and present feelings about a lost love, and by relating them to the words of other poets as far back as the Renaissance and Sir Thomas Wyatt
...
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wrote that the two great influences on her as a poet (because they helped her to find her own voice) were Sir Thomas Wyatt
and W. H. Auden
. Eliot
, too, was inescapable...
Textual Production
Lettice Cooper
The title is quoted from a stanza by Sir Thomas Wyatt
, which is printed on the title-page.
Cooper, Lettice. The Double Heart. Gollancz, 1968.
title-page
Timeline
About the 1530s-1540s
The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library
Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of Elizabeth Heale
's edition, 2012...