However, as Richard Harrier's The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poetry (1975) shows, the problem of determining which poems aren't Wyatt's is much simpler. In his preface to Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Complete Poems, R A Rebholz comments, 'the problem of determining which poems Wyatt wrote is as yet unsolved'. They derive mostly from two Tudor manuscript anthologies, the Devonshire and Blage manuscripts. Another 129 poems have been ascribed to Wyatt purely on the basis of subjective editorial judgment. These 156 poems can be ascribed to Wyatt with certainty, on the basis of objective evidence. Tottel's Miscellany (1557), the Elizabethan anthology which created Wyatt's posthumous reputation, ascribes 96 poems to him, (33 not extant in the Egerton Manuscript). The Egerton Manuscript, originally an album containing Wyatt's personal selection of his poems and translations, preserves 123 texts, partly in the poet's hand.
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