Anonymous (Elizabethan miscellanies)

"Ignoto", Italian for "the unknown", is the signature England's Helicon (1600) prints under many of its poems. The anthology, first published in 1600 by the stationer John Flasket and enlarged in 1614, was edited under the initials "A. B."; the poems it prints are credited, in this archive, to the poets whose signatures they bear, and Anthony Munday's "Shepherd Tony" is not identified here, since A. H. Bullen argues that Munday was not that poet.

This page gathers the poems of Bullen's 1887 edition that carry no usable name: those signed "Ignoto" or "Anonymous", the poems signed with initials Bullen does not identify (T. B., W. H., I. F., I. G.), the signature "M. N. Howell", of whom Bullen says nothing is known, the "Shepherd Tony" poems, two poems signed with the Earl of Surrey's name that first appeared among the Uncertain Authors of Tottel's Miscellany (1557), and the madrigal and song-book pieces printed without a name. Each note gives the signature as printed.