Matter and Making in Early English Poetry - Literary Production From Chaucer to Sidney

"This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major poets - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, and Wyatt - and reconstructs their ideas about the proper way to write. It sheds new light on the question of what these poets thought literature itself was made from"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Words and deeds in Chaucer; 2. Gower and the crying voice; 3. Hoccleve and the force of literature; 4. Lydgate and the surplus of history; 5. Copy, copia and imitation in skelton; 6. Wyatt's Grace.

About the author

Taylor Cowdery is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His work on late-medieval and early modern poetics has appeared in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and ELH.

Summary

This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major poets – Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, and Wyatt – and reconstructs their ideas about the proper way to write. It sheds new light on the question of what these poets thought literature itself was made from.

Foreword

This revisionist literary history of early court poetry illuminates late-medieval and early modern theories of literary production.

Product details

• Authors: Taylor Cowdery, Taylor (University of North Carolina Cowdery
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009223744
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922374-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Later 14th century c 1350 to c 1399, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Medieval style, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, For higher / tertiary / university education