Sir Thomas Wyatt the Poet

I stumbled upon Ginsburg reading a few of our ancestor’s poems; he talks about Sir Tom’s ways with cadence and rhythm.

This is from July, 1996 – First half of an Allen Ginsberg lecture on English and American lyric poetry. Ginsberg reads William Blake’s “Let the brothels of paris be opened,” “The gray monk,” “The Mask of anarchy,” “The ballad of Sir Patrick Spense,” “The Holy land of walsingham” and “Weep you no more, sad fountains,” followed by Thomas Wyatt’s “My lute awake,” “Forget not yet,” “They flee from me,” “Gasgoyne’s lullaby” and “Tickborn’s elegy.”

http://www.archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_lecture_on_English_and_Am_96P049

Note that the Wyatt segments are this far into the audio:

46:45: Wyatt intro
48:00: My Lute Awake!
51:40: Brooklyn college students bored with this old stuff…
52:25: “Forget not yet..” Wyatt

Added 10/9/11; Today I discovered “Forget not yet” was Sir Tom’s farewell to Anne Boleyn after she’d caught the eye of the king.