Matter and making in early English poetry : literary production from Chaucer to Sidney /
Taylor Cowdery
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- xi, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 121 .
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 121 .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-317) and index
Words and Deeds in Chaucer -- Gower and the Crying Voice -- Hoccleve and the Force of Literature -- Lydgate and the Surplus of History -- Copy and Copia in Skelton -- Wyatt's Grace
"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"--
9781009223744 1009223747
English poetry--History and criticism--Middle English, 1100-1500 English poetry--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700 Literature and society--History--England--To 1500 Literature and society--History--England--16th century