Self-Referential Artifacts: Hoccleve's Persona as a Literary Device
- Author / Editor
- Greetham, D. C.
Self-Referential Artifacts: Hoccleve's Persona as a Literary Device
- Published
- Modern Philology 86.3 (1989): 242-51.
- Description
- Analyzes Thomas Hoccleve's narrative persona in his "Regement of Princes" and his "Series" poems, treating it as a development out of "the inherited Chaucerian narrator" toward a psychological portrait marked by the deleterious effects of "thought" and "studie" and a harbinger of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.