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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griffiths, Jane, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
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.