Hoccleve's Independence from Chaucer: A Study of Poetic Emancipation
- Author / Editor
- Classen, Albrecht.
Hoccleve's Independence from Chaucer: A Study of Poetic Emancipation
- Published
- Fifteenth-Century Studies 16 (1990): 59-81.
- Description
- Surveys the reception of Hoccleve's poetry and argues that its "autobiographical self-presentation" underlines its differences from Chaucer's influential precedent. Hoccleve also introduces innovative themes and topics: madness, alienation, and various biographical and topical concerns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.