Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt by Robert J. Meyer-Lee
Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt by Robert J. Meyer-Lee
English | 18 Jan. 2007 | ISBN: 0521863554 | 311 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 18 Jan. 2007 | ISBN: 0521863554 | 311 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
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 writing about their King, nation, and themselves, and their innovations influenced a continuous line of poets running through and beyond Wyatt.