Hoccleve's Chaucer Portrait
- Author / Editor
- Krochalis, Jeanne E.
Hoccleve's Chaucer Portrait
- Published
- Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 234-45.
- Description
- Hoccleve's request for a portrait (supplied in the Harley 4866 MS of "The Regement of Princes") is something new: the author's likenesses had heretofore been stylized. Hoccleve's lines (4992-5012) place Chaucer in a holy or ecclesiastical setting. Perhaps the impetus for realistic portraiture came from such royal effigies as can be seen in Westminster Abbey.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.