Wyatt, WY uht, Sir Thomas (1503?-1542), was an English poet whose most important works are lyrics he wrote for lute accompaniment. Wyatt was active during the first phase of the English Renaissance. He adapted works by many writers, including the Italian Renaissance poet Luigi Alamanni. Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, are credited with introducing Petrarch's sonnet techniques into English literature. Wyatt is usually linked in literary history with the Earl of Surrey because their poems were first published together in The Book of Songs and Sonnets (1557), usually called Tottel's Miscellany. See Surrey, Earl of.