A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.Contents:The patronage of poetry / Carol Meale --Forms of circulation / Simon Horobin --Thomas Hoccleve / Sheila Lindenbaum --Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of princes / David Watt --John Lydgate's major poems / Robert Meyer-Lee --John Lydgate's religious poetry / Anthony Bale --John Lydgate's shorter secular poems / Joanna Martin --John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: verse saints' lives / Sarah James --Peter Idley and George Ashby / John Scattergood --John Audelay and James Ryman / Susanna Fein --Fifteenth-century Chaucerian visions / Ad Putter --Historical and political verse / Alfred Hiatt --Classical and humanist translations / Daniel Wakelin --Romance / Andrew King --Scientific and encyclopaedic verse / Anke Timmermann --Popular verse tales / Julia Boffey --Beyond the fifteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards.