Roman Clodia’s Reviews > Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Poet, Lover, Statesman, and Spy in the Court of Henry VIII > Status Update

'The key to this poem'... 'This interpretation is very probably what Wyatt intended'... reduces the poems to bits of autobiography which can be unlocked to reveal a single, fixed truth.

Ahem, The Roman de la Rose by Chretien de Troyes (p.16)? Er, no!

We know we're in 'popular' territory when faced with vast over statements and anachronisms like this: 'Wyatt, like Mandelstam or Akhmatova, was a poet writing under tyranny, who might yield insights into life under the Tudor Stalin'.