Sir Thomas Wyatt was a Renaissance poet, and the founder of the English sonnet.
He was born in Kent, England (1503), and was an ambassador to France and Italy for King Henry VIII.
He was exposed to many different styles of poetry in his travels, which he adapted and integrated into the English language.
He was rumored to have been one of Anne Boleyn’s lovers, and spent a month in the Tower of London until Boleyn’s execution (for adultery).
After witnessing Boleyn’s execution from the prison cell, he wrote the poem “V. Innocentia Veritas Viat Fides Circumdederunt me inimici mei” (Link here: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/innocent.htm), which [very roughly] translates to “Innocence,Truth, Wyatt, Faith, My enemies have surrounded me”.
None of Wyatt's poems were published in his lifetime, with the exception of a few poems in an assemblage entitled The Court of Venus.