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Henry VIII Biography

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Name: Henry VIII
Birth Date: June 28, 1491
Death Date: January 28, 1547
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Henry VIII

King Henry VIII once confessed to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey that "writing is to me somewhat tedious and painful," and his scanty literary remains testify to this aversion: a handful of seemingly crude poems and song lyrics produced during the first decade of his reign; assorted diplomatic letters; several short love letters to Anne Boleyn in English and French; the Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (1521; translated as The Defense of the Seven Sacraments, 1687), a theological polemic written in answer to Martin Luther's On the Babylonian Captivity (1520); and a short preface to a 1543 book setting forth the official religion. There were also one or two works that were never completed and are now lost, such as a tragedy on Boleyn and a book justifying his divorce. Nevertheless, Henry VIII's centrality to the development of sixteenth-century English literature cannot be doubted.

First, his patronage of humanists contributed to the adoption of the humanist curriculum in English letters and education.

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