One of this book's many virtues is its challenge to conventional literary and historical periodizations. Rossiter demonstrates how rich a medieval aesthetic persisted in Wyatt's poetry and how a medieval understanding of statecraft shaped his work as a 'Renaissance' diplomat.
COMMON KNOWLEDGE
Wyatt Abroad exemplifies what literary interpretation informed by a sound grasp of the textual tradition can ... Read moredo. . . . [S]cholars and the critics of the famous division of kingdoms owe Rossiter attention and, indeed, gratitude.
JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
[Its] strengths lie in the close readings of specific poems in their historical and critical settings as well as analyses of the subtle changes Wyatt makes to the sources he translates and adapts.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
[The] book moves in a direction toward which many scholars have been pushing for years: that of confluence and the overcomnig of the barriers between different disciplines with the goal of providing a new vein of humanistic study.
SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL
This study deftly fuses literary biography, sensitive close reading, and translation theory. . . . Rossiter is admirably attentive to Wyatt's handling of sources, the deictic ambiguities of his poetic idiom, and his reliance on suggestion, simulation, and dissimulation.
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