Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-208) and index.
Titular identity: orator regius, poet laureate, and vates -- Amplifying memory: the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus -- 'A false abstracte cometh from a fals concrete': representation and misrepresentation in The Bowge of court and magnyfycence -- 'Shedis of sentence': imitation and interpretation in Speke Parrot -- Diverting authorities: The glosses to Speke Parrot, a replycacion, and a garlande of laurell -- All in the mind: inspiration, improvisation, and the fantasy in Magnyfycence and A replycacion -- Rewriting the record: Skelton's poshumous reputation.
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This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (c.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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John Skelton and poetic authority.
Skelton, John,1460?-1529-- Criticism and interpretation.
Skelton, John,(1460?-1529)-- Critique et interprétation.