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Poem of the Day: ‘My Heart I Gave Thee, Not to Do It Pain’

We remember Wyatt chiefly as the conduit by which the sonnet made its way from Italy to England, to take hold as an enduring form in the English poetic tradition.

Sir Thomas Wyatt, detail, by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Sir Thomas Wyatt, detail, by Francesco Bartolozzi. Via Wikimedia Commons