Editing, modernizing and concordancing the complete poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

The purpose of this dissertation is to propound and interpret propositions and resolve dilemmas connected with editing, modernizing and concordancing Surrey's verse. It provides three distinct sections, each with a specific scholarly and critical focus, all interdependent, but contributing organically to the dissertation's intellectual core: viz. to bring to life comprehensively the verse, language and significance of a poet whose influence continues to be felt in the major English literary forms he invented and in the metrical regularity and fluency he attained.