John Skelton and Poetic Authority
Defining the Liberty to Speak
ISBN13: 9780199273607ISBN10: 019927360X
Hardback,
225 pages
Jul 2006,
In Stock
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Description
This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (?1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between "Medieval" and "Renaissance" poetics.Features
- In response to recent critical focus on Skelton's historical context, Jane Griffiths offers here an interpretative approach to his work
- Contains the only substantial study to date of Skelton's translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus
- Examines in detail Skelton's reception in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Reviews
"A patient, scrupulous book.... Griffiths's book admirably joins forces with readers who insist on this power in his work, discovered through its antic motions."--Theresa Krier, Sixteenth Century Journal
"Griffiths has achieved admirably what she set out to do."--Deanne Williams, Speculum
