With Henry Howard and Nicholas Grimald, et al.. Wyatt’s three Horatian verse epistles and many of his balets are included in this posthumous publication (often referred to as Tottel’s Miscellany), although his psalm paraphrases did not appear in this largely secular anthology of courtly verse. Before their appearance in print, Wyatt’s poems had existed in manuscript form, most importantly in his own personal volume, the Egerton Manuscript (British Library, MS Egerton 2711). During his lifetime, as well as in the years afterwards, his verse circulated in a number of other manuscript collections and anthologies: chief among these were the Devonshire Manuscript (British Library, MS Additional 17492); the Arundel-Harington Manuscript (Arundel, Arundel Castle, Harington MS Temp. Eliz.), which probably post-dates Tottel’s Miscellany of 1557; the Blage Manuscript (Dublin, Trinity College, MS 160 (ff. 57–186), in MS...

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