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| | §6. Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge ... |
 | | The accident of birth, no doubt, led to Surreys poems being placed before those of Wyatt in Tottels Miscellany, and this accident may have induced commentators to regard Surrey as the master of Wyatt, rather than to take the probably more truthful view, that each influenced the other, but that Wyatt was the pioneer. |
 | | Henry Howard was the eldest son of lord Thomas Howard, son of Thomas, earl of Surrey and duke of Norfolk, and himself became, by courtesy, earl of Surrey in 1524, on his fathers succeeding to the dukedom. |
 | | From a poem to which reference will be made later it seems possible that he was educated with the duke of Richmond, Henry VIIs natural son, who, later, married his sister. |
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