Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt
- Author / Editor
- Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt
- Published
- Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xii, 297 pp.
- Description
- Many causes contributed to the change in climate, particularly Bolingbroke's seizure of the throne from Richard II in 1399 and the concomitant changes in relationships between princes and poets, between poets and audiences, and between audiences and the English language. Makes passing references to BD, ClT, FranT, KnT, MLT, Ret, Th, HF, LGW, and TC.
- Fifteenth-century English poets "responded" to an evolving "climate of patronage by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry" that included the role of poet laureate (although the office was not official until John Dryden's appointment in 1668). Poets who proclaimed themselves Chaucer's disciples, particularly John Lydgate, retroactively fashioned Chaucer as England's first poet laureate, even though Chaucer himself was suspicious of the concept.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.