This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.
This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.
Jane Griffiths was born in Exeter but brought up in Holland. After reading English at Oxford, where her poem 'The House' won the Newdigate Prize, she worked as a bookbinder and lecturer in London and Norfolk. She subsequently returned to Oxford, where she completed her doctorate on John Skelton and worked as an assistant editor on the Oxford English Dictionary. She now teaches English at St Edmund Hall.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Titular identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates * 2: Amplifying memory: The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus * 3: 'A fals abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': representation and misrepresentation in The Bowge of Court and Magnyfycence * 4: 'Shredis of sentence': imitation and interpretation in Speke Parrot * 5: Diverting authorities: the glosses to Speke Parrot, A Replycacion , and A Garlande of Laurell * 6: All in the mind: inspiration, improvisation, and the fantasy in Magnyfycence and A Replycacion * 7: Rewriting the record: Skelton's posthumous reputation * Conclusion * Select Bibliography
* Introduction * 1: Titular identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates * 2: Amplifying memory: The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus * 3: 'A fals abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': representation and misrepresentation in The Bowge of Court and Magnyfycence * 4: 'Shredis of sentence': imitation and interpretation in Speke Parrot * 5: Diverting authorities: the glosses to Speke Parrot, A Replycacion , and A Garlande of Laurell * 6: All in the mind: inspiration, improvisation, and the fantasy in Magnyfycence and A Replycacion * 7: Rewriting the record: Skelton's posthumous reputation * Conclusion * Select Bibliography
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