Historicising Hoccleve's Metre.
- Author / Editor
- Myklebust, Nicholas.
Historicising Hoccleve's Metre.
- Published
- Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 25-46.
- Description
- Argues that “because Hoccleve's metre cannot persuasively be reconciled with any known metrical system, it must be allowed its own category." Details Chaucer's metrical "template" and shows how Hoccleve varies it to create his own, although influenced by that of John Walton in his verse translation of Boethius. Hoccleve's and Walton's verse "prefigure modern iambic pentameter" more clearly than does Chaucers.
- Alternative Title
- Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification