John Skelton and poetic authority : defining the liberty to speak /
This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (c.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 distinc...
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Titular identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates
- Amplifying memory: the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus
- 'A false abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': representation and misrepresentation in The Bowge of court and magnyfycence
- 'Shedis of sentence': imitation and interpretation in Speke Parrot
- Diverting authorities: The glosses to Speke Parrot, a replycacion, and a garlande of laurell
- All in the mind: inspiration, improvisation, and the fantasy in Magnyfycence and A replycacion
- Rewriting the record: Skelton's poshumous reputation.