A "troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge": Hoccleve's Nearly-Dream Poem.

Published: Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 85-102.

Description: Shows how the "framed first-person narrative with which [Hoccleve's] "Regiment" begins is a reconfiguration rather than a straightforward rejection of Chaucer's dream poetry." While both authors use dream-vision conventions to engage previous authors and texts, Hoccleve is concerned with "contemporary political and religious discourses" and his "distinctive self-authorising strategy . . . involves both an imitation and a pointed refusal of Chaucer’s dream poems," especially their effacements of their narrators' poetic skills.