Thomas Hoccleve and the Politics of Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Bowers, John M.
Thomas Hoccleve and the Politics of Tradition
- Published
- ChauR 36 : 352-69, 2002.
- Description
- Assesses why Hoccleve, the first person who attempted to establish Chaucer as the Father of English poetry, failed to "claim his own position as direct lineal heir in this literary genealogy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.