'Wyatt resteth here.' Surrey's republican elegy

An analysis of the strategies that Surrey employed in the composition of his elegy on Wyatt provides a revealing approach to the relation between these strategies and Surrey's political position within the court of Henry VIII. A close examination of the elegy exposes the contradictions between Surrey's aristocratic background and the humanist republican strain that pervades the elegy. Its combination of Evangelism and Stoicism with the republican praise of virtue and civic service links the elegy with Surrey's translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Both works share a common teleological design combining stoic and Augustinian subtexts resulting in their respective symbolic articulations.