John Skelton and Poetic Authority Defining the Liberty to Speak

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ISBN: 9780199273607 | 019927360X
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Copyright: 8/3/2006

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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.

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Introduction

(17)

1. Titular Identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates

(20)

1.1. Aspirational Poetics: The Poet as orator regius in the Dolorus Dethe and Agaynst the Scottes

(6)

1.2. The Poetics of Ambivalence: The Poet as laureate and vates in A Garlande of Laurell and A Replycacion

(13)

2. Amplifying Memory: The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus

(18)

2.1 The Written Record and the Process of Writing: History in the Bibliotheca

(8)

2.2 The Sources of Eloquence: Amplification in the Bibliotheca

(9)

3. A false abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': Representation and Misrepresentation in The Bowge of Court and Magnyftcence

(23)

3.1 Problems of Allegory in The Bowge of Court

(8)

3.2. Words as Swords: Misdefinition and Misinterpretation in Magnyfrence

(8)

3.3 The Poetics of Reason: Towards 'the liberty to speak'

(6)

4. Shredis of sentence': Imitation and Interpretation in Speke Parrot

(22)

4.1 The Grammarians' War: Imitation as Rule

(6)

4.2. Truth in Parable: Imitation as Invention

(10)

4.3 The liberty to speak': Imitation as Emulation

(5)

5. Diverting Authorities: The Glosses to Speke Parrot, A Replycacion, and A Garlande of Laurell

101

(28)

5.1. The Glossarial Background

101

(5)

5.2. The Textual Evidence

106

(5)

5.3. 'A Diabolical Tangle': Exegesis versus Interpretation in the Glosses to A Replycacion and Speke Parrot

111

(6)

5.4. The Welchman's Hose': Entertainment versus Instruction in the Glosses to A Garlande of Laurell

117

(12)

6. All in the Mind: Inspiration, Improvisation, and the Fantasy in Magnyfycence and A Replycacion

129

(29)

6.1. The 'effecte energiall' and the Fantasy

130

(5)

6.2. Fansy and Improvisation: 'the trouthe as I thynke'

135

(5)

6.3. The Zodiac of the Poet's Wit: Skelton, Hawes, and Later Sixteenth-Century Poetics

140

(18)

7. Rewriting the Record: Skelton's Posthumous Reputation

158

(27)

7.1. The Skeltonic as Protest Poetry

160

(10)

7.2. Skelton as Rogue, Fool, and Outlaw

170

(15)

Conclusion

185

(7)

Select Bibliography

192

(17)

Index

209

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John Skelton and Poetic Authority Defining the Liberty to Speak

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