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The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt\nby Peter Murphy\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Peter Murphy\nTitle: The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781503609280\nISBN-10: 1503609286\nRRP: \u00A325.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThomas Wyatt didn't publish \""They Flee from Me.\"" It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells\u2014in vivid and compelling detail\u2014of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 t.