'Howe Like You This': Speech and Fantasy in Thomas Wyatt's "They Fle From Me

Purves, Robin orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4614-0426 (2016) 'Howe Like You This': Speech and Fantasy in Thomas Wyatt's "They Fle From Me. The Use of English: The English Association Journal for Teachers of English, 67 (3). pp. 48-56. ISSN 0042-1243

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Abstract

The essay analyses the function of words reported by the speaker of the poem as coming from his lover (or ex-lover) and demonstrates how the words can be read as undermining the function ascribed to them by the speaker; this is accomplished in order to sketch a model for the production of 'inwardness', the representation of a psychologically complex interior life, which differs from that given by Stephen Greenblatt in his influential essay on Wyatt.


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