*The Man with Night Sweats*

A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn

In August 1991, in a review of a new anthology of sixteenth-century poetry, Thom Gunn noted two poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt. These were poems that dealt directly with the execution of friends and associates of Wyatt’s, including Anne Boleyn.