Scogan, Shirley's Reputation and Chaucerian Occasional Verse

Author / Editor
Burnley, David.

Title
Scogan, Shirley's Reputation and Chaucerian Occasional Verse

Published
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 28-46.

Description
Reassesses details of Chaucer's Scog and of Scogan's Moral Balade in light of their historical context, intertextual relations, manuscript variants, and scribal graffiti, arguing that Scogan's poem reflects familiarity with several of Chaucer's works. Burnley reads Scog for what it can tell us about the lives of the poets.

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.

Chaucer Subjects
Envoy to Scogan.
Chaucer's Life.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.