(1503-1542 / Kent / England)

poet Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Whoso List to Hunt

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, helas! I may no more.
The vain travail hath worried me so sore,
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  • John Minigan (8/30/2007 7:35:00 AM)

    Wyatt based his poem on Petrarch's Sonnet 190. The similarity is remarkable, but so is the slight change of 'form.' Wyatt was probably expressing his feelings on the loss of Anne Boleyn, believed to be his mistress, to Henry VIII.

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