Thomas Hoccleve and the Chaucer Portrait
- Author / Editor
- Carlson, David R.
Thomas Hoccleve and the Chaucer Portrait
- Published
- Huntington Library Quarterly 54 (1991): 283-300.
- Description
- Hoccleve's hopes for preferment depended upon his claim to personal acquaintance with Chaucer and to his "consail and reed." Hoccleve's patrons had known Chaucer by sight and could verify the image of Chaucer that accompanies Hoccleve's poems. Hence the Ellesmere-Hoccleve type portraits show Chaucer's true image.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life