Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century

Published
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 520-37.

Description
Edwards cites the "pivotal" nature of the 1532 publication of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Chaucer's "Werkes" and explores "Chaucerian modes and language" in fifteenth-century poetry by Hoccleve, Lydgate, Dunbar, and Henryson--a "subject that has yet to receive exhaustive study." Also comments on alliterative tradition, lyric legacies, and "verse translations from the classics."

Alternative Title
A Companion to Medieval Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.