SOURCE: Simpson, James. “Breaking the Vacuum: Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism.” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29, No. 2 (Spring 1999): 325-55.
In the essay which follows, Simpson contends that Wyatt and Surrey were writers operating within specific literary traditions, rather than the radical innovators they are often depicted to be.
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