Illuminator, Maker, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Ebin, Lois A.
Illuminator, Maker, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century
- Published
- Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 253 pp.
- Description
- Ebin shows that "instead of being inept imitators of Chaucer and his company," the fifteenth-century poets "departed from their supposed models.
- The poetry between Lydgate and Skelton reveals a shift from the salvation-oriented to the secular; from God's word to the poet's language as a manifestation of order; from a quest for truth to one for wisdom and political order; from the poet as an 'enluminer' to the poet as 'makar,' a master craftsman, a public servant, and model of virtue--to the 'vate' (sic) or seer and laureate, who did not scorn worldly fame."
- Chapter 1 examines tributes to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.