Eulogies and Usurpations : Hoccleve and Chaucer Revisited
- Author / Editor
- Knapp, Ethan.
Eulogies and Usurpations : Hoccleve and Chaucer Revisited
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999): 247-73, 1999.
- Description
- Hoccleve's three encomia for Chaucer in "Regement of Princes" praise Chaucer's genius but also pose strategies for "poetic usurpation." In applying them to Chaucer, Hoccleve capitalized on the "polyvocality" of the metaphors of father, master, and wise Old Man, especially rich at a time when questions of paternity complicated the Lancastrian line of descent.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.