John Skelton: Selected Poems

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Routledge, 2020 M11 25 - 142 páginas
This book presents a collection of works of John Skelton, the first great modern English poet, who wrote in a vigorous vernacular, taking literary English out of the medieval world and enriching it with new forms and tones. It provides notes and glossary illuminating Skelton's works for the reader.
 

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Introduction
9
Woefully Arrayed
21
My Darling Dear My Daisy Flower
23
The Ancient Acquaintance Madam Between Us Twain
24
Mannerly Margery Milk And Ale
25
Womanhood Wanton Ye Want
26
from The Bouge of Court
27
Philip Sparrow
39
The Tunning of Elinour Rumming
73
Speak Parrot
91
from The Garland of Laurel
108
Notes
130
Glossary
137
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John Skelton was an ordained priest and rector. He was poet laureate at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, a court poet for King Henry VII, and a tutor to King Henry VIII. Gerald Hammond is a professor of English at the University of Manchester. He is the author of "Fleeting Things" and "The Making of the English Bible," and the editor of "Selected Poems: Richard Lovelace."

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