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Cowdery, Taylor, 1986-

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


Literary criticism.

PR311 / .C69 2023

821.109 / C874