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'My Compleinte' and Other Poems

'My Compleinte' and Other Poems

Hoccleve, Thomas
Ellis, Roger

Paperback

Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 085989701X
ISBN13: 9780859897013
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.97 Depth: 9.82
Language: English
Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. It provides students and other readers new to his work with a very fair indication of his range and achievement as original writer and translator and includes a full Introduction and marginal glosses. It also offers those more familiar with his work a fuller account than has hitherto been available of the manuscripts both of Hoccleve's own texts and, when he was translating from Latin or French, of his sources. Some of the themes and topics explored, with Hoccleve's light and witty touch, include women (for them or against them); money (always short of it, and as likely as not to be paid in counterfeit coin); isolation and suffering (causes various, but always painful); the pains of hell and the joys of heaven; the serendipitous nature of literary production; the writer as translator, reporter, or even

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