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A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

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This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.

Contents:
The patronage of poetry / Carol Meale --
Forms of circulation / Simon Horobin --
Thomas Hoccleve / Sheila Lindenbaum --
Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of princes / David Watt --
John Lydgate's major poems / Robert Meyer-Lee --
John Lydgate's religious poetry / Anthony Bale --
John Lydgate's shorter secular poems / Joanna Martin --
John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: verse saints' lives / Sarah James --
Peter Idley and George Ashby / John Scattergood --
John Audelay and James Ryman / Susanna Fein --
Fifteenth-century Chaucerian visions / Ad Putter --
Historical and political verse / Alfred Hiatt --
Classical and humanist translations / Daniel Wakelin --
Romance / Andrew King --
Scientific and encyclopaedic verse / Anke Timmermann --
Popular verse tales / Julia Boffey --
Beyond the fifteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards.

Language: English

Pages: 258

Format: Paperback

Publisher: D.S. Brewer

Release: May 14, 2014

ISBN: 1782041117

ISBN 13: 9781782041115

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

0/5 ( ratings)

This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.

Contents:
The patronage of poetry / Carol Meale --
Forms of circulation / Simon Horobin --
Thomas Hoccleve / Sheila Lindenbaum --
Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of princes / David Watt --
John Lydgate's major poems / Robert Meyer-Lee --
John Lydgate's religious poetry / Anthony Bale --
John Lydgate's shorter secular poems / Joanna Martin --
John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: verse saints' lives / Sarah James --
Peter Idley and George Ashby / John Scattergood --
John Audelay and James Ryman / Susanna Fein --
Fifteenth-century Chaucerian visions / Ad Putter --
Historical and political verse / Alfred Hiatt --
Classical and humanist translations / Daniel Wakelin --
Romance / Andrew King --
Scientific and encyclopaedic verse / Anke Timmermann --
Popular verse tales / Julia Boffey --
Beyond the fifteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards.

Language: English

Pages: 258

Format: Paperback

Publisher: D.S. Brewer

Release: May 14, 2014

ISBN: 1782041117

ISBN 13: 9781782041115

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