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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Thomas Hoccleve"”.
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Thomas Hoccleve as poet and clerk
… this thesis re-examines the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve in the context of his career as a clerk of the Privy Seal and the history of the late medieval English government administration. Through identification of Hoccleve’s handwriting, it has been possible to search for all the extant …
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The philosopher, the preacher, and the poet : sadness and suffering in late medieval English literature
… on the discourse of poet and Privy Seal employee Thomas Hoccleve; my purpose in this section is to demonstate that an awareness of late medieval intellectual contexts can significantly enrich a modern scholar’s understanding of Middle English representations of sadness, madness, and pain.
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Making English Low: A History of Laureate Poetics, 1399-1616
… who themselves aspired to national prominence: Thomas Hoccleve (c. 1367-1426), John Skelton (c. 1460-1529), and Ben Jonson (1572-1637). In so doing, my project proposes a new approach to early English laureateship. Previous studies assume that aspiration English writers fashioned their new …
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Misreading English meter : 1400-1514
… of reception by poets: those of John Walton, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. I conclude the dissertation by tracing the influence of Hoccleve and Lydgate on the later fifteenth-century poets George Ashby, Osbern Bokenham, and John Metham, and by identifying the eclipse of fifteenth-century …