John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak
Author(s): Jane Griffiths (Author)
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 3 Aug. 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 226 pages
- ISBN-10: 019927360X
- ISBN-13: 9780199273607
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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"A patient, scrupulous book.... Griffiths's book admirably joins forces with readers who insist on this power in his work, discovered through its antic motions."--Theresa Krier, Sixteenth Century Journal
"Griffiths has achieved admirably what she set out to do."--Deanne Williams, Speculum
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The first to link Skelton's poetic theory to his practice as a writer
Review
"A patient, scrupulous book.... Griffiths's book admirably joins forces with readers who insist on this power in his work, discovered through its antic motions."--Theresa Krier, Sixteenth Century Journal
"Griffiths has achieved admirably what she set out to do."--Deanne Williams, Speculum
About the Author
Jane Griffiths was born in Exeter but brought up in Holland. After reading English at Oxford, where her poem 'The House' won the Newdigate Prize, she worked as a bookbinder and lecturer in London and Norfolk. She subsequently returned to Oxford, where she completed her doctorate on John Skelton and worked as an assistant editor on the Oxford English Dictionary. She now teaches English at St Edmund Hall.
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