Hoccleve and the National Language

Author / Editor
Lehr, John.

Title
Hoccleve and the National Language

Published
Medieval English Studies 05 (1997): 243-82.

Description
Compares the multilingual conditions of late-medieval England with modern conditions in Korea, Kenya, and Quebec. Then argues that Hoccleve's poetic career resulted from Lancastrian encouragement of a national English language imitating Chaucer's model.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.