John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak

By Jane Griffiths

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019927360X
• ISBN13: 9780199273607
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"