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Among these poets from the 1500s, who was not associated with serving at the royal court?

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Explanation

George Puttenham, unlike Philip Sidney, Walter Ralegh, and Thomas Wyatt, was not a courtier. The other three poets held positions or had close ties to the royal court during the sixteenth century.

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