Thomas Hoccleve's 'Letter of Cupid' and 'Martir Margarete'

Author / Editor
Downes, Stephanie.

Title
Thomas Hoccleve's 'Letter of Cupid' and 'Martir Margarete'

Published
N&Q 256 (2011): 186-88.

Description
In referring to St. Margaret of Antioch in this poem, Hoccleve draws out her "implied presence" in the form of the marguerite in the prologue to Chaucer's LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion