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SOURCE: A review of Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 3548, Febraury 26, 1970, p. 223.
In the following review of Muir and Thomson's updated edition of Wyatt's Collected Poems, the reviewer discusses newly discovered poems from the Blage manuscript.
Since Professor Muir discovered poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the Blage Manuscript at Trinity College, Dublin, ten or a dozen years ago, it has been clear that a thorough revision of the text of all Wyatt's poetry must be undertaken. Until that discovery our knowledge of Wyatt's poetry was mainly derived from two major manuscripts, one of which (Egerton 2711) had belonged to the poet himself, while the other (Devonshire 17492) had been compiled by or for certain ladies at the Court of Queen Anne Boleyn. The Blage Manuscript, compiled by Sir George Blage, who was a close friend of Wyatt, is of comparable importance with these...
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