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Poets and power from Chaucer to Wyatt /

In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry. Following Chaucer and others, Hoccleve and Lydgate brought to English verse a style and subject matter wr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer-Lee, Robert John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: laureates and beggars
  • Part I. Backgrounds
  • Laureate poetics
  • Part II. The First Lancastrian Poets
  • John Lydgate: the invention of the English laureate
  • Thomas Hoccleve: beggar laureate
  • Part III. From Lancaster to Early Tudor
  • Lydgateanism
  • The trace of Lydgate: Stephen Hawes, Alexander Barclay, and John Skelton
  • Epilogue: Sir Thomas Wyatt: anti-laureate.