Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem

"Meticulously maps the eddies and currents that have defined this vexing poem''s vexed history of neglect, rediscovery, and canonization . . . grippingly unusual." —Renaissance Quarterly Thomas Wyatt didn''t publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in countless poetry anthologies. How did it survive?  That is the story Peter Murphy ...