Thomas Wyatt didn\'t publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison.
Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider.
Wyatt\'s poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history.
How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells--in vivid and compelling detail--of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years.
Today it is in every poetry anthology.
Thomas Wyatt didn\'t publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison