Thomas Hoccleve’s Collected Shorter Poems

A Critical Edition of the Huntington Holographs

Sebastian J. Langdell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2023
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83764-425-4 (ISBN)

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Thomas Hoccleve produced the first author-curated 'collected poems' in the English language, preserved in two complementary manuscripts: Huntington Library, MSS HM 111 and HM 744 (copied 1422-26). This is the first full modern edition of these poems. The twenty-eight pieces span Hoccleve's entire career: they range from stirring devotional verse, to playful autobiography, deft translations of Latin and French texts, and timely political verse. The collection comprises the entirety of Hoccleve's poetic corpus, save his two longer works, the Regiment of Princes and the Series. It includes some of Hoccleve's most celebrated and widely studied poems, including 'The Epistle of Cupid', 'La Male Regle', 'To Sir John Oldcastle', 'Complaint Paramount', 'Learn to Die', and 'The Court of Good Company'. This edition engages for the first time with newly identified sources of poems; it also offers comprehensive textual variants for the poems, a full up-to-date chronology, and explanatory notes that engage with the wealth of recent scholarship on Hoccleve – including newly discovered details about Hoccleve's life and the dates of his poems, his relationship with heresy and orthodox reform movements, and his positioning within London scribal circles and coterie readerships.

Sebastian J. Langdell is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Baylor University. He is the author of Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer (LUP 2018) and a founding member of the International Hoccleve Society. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in: New Medieval Literatures, Medium Aevum, Augustinian Studies, The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches, and the Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHRONOLOGY
LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS & SIGLA
INTRODUCTION

NOTES ON EDITORIAL PRACTICE

HM 111
1. Complaint Paramount 2. To Sir John Oldcastle 3. La Male Regle 4. For Henry V at Kennington 5-6. Knights of the Garter 7. Mother of Life 8. The Bones of Richard II 9. Balade to Edward, Duke of York 10. Mother of God 11. Balade to John, Duke of Bedford 12. Balade to the Chancellor 13. Balade and Roundel to Henry Somer 14. Regiment of Princes envoi 15. Victorious King 16. Balade to John Carpenter 17. The Court of Good Company 18. Balade for Robert Chichele

HM 744
1. Inuocacio ad patrem
2. Ad filium
3. Ad spiritum sanctum
4. Worshipful Maiden
5. Mother of Grace
6. The Monk Who Clad the Virgin
7. The Epistle of Cupid
8. Henry V’s Last Return
9. Three Roundels
10. Learn to Die

TABLE: POEMS WITH WITNESSES BEYOND HM 111 & 744

TEXTUAL VARIANTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83764-425-X / 183764425X
ISBN-13	978-1-83764-425-4 / 9781837644254
Zustand	Neuware