Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

self-positioning midway through the poem. A more complex version of such doubling appears in“This hinder nycht, halff sleiping a ...

It wald me sumthing satisfie And les of my malancolie, And gar me mony falt ourse cause; overlook That now is brayd befoir myn e ...

the petitioner’s body One possible approach to the self-contradictory Dunbar of the petitionary poems is to assimilate him to a ...

his own grievances: as we shall see shortly, the poem’s movement is one of gradual diminution, the complaint’s pretensions to un ...

refrain, however,finally becomes corporeal; Dunbar’s anguished anticipa- tion“breikis my hairt and birstis my brane”( 83 ). In o ...

[I cough endlessly, as if I were consumptive. My pulse tells me death is not far off. My feet prove I’m helpless, as does the re ...

Lydgate’s letter to Gloucester mixes purse and body in a dazzling series of metaphorical reversals, in which inside and outside, ...

[“I tell you that St. Pry’s game can’t make my tool, feeble and round like an egg, new again”].^54 Cerquiglini has demonstrated ...

equine parallels to his own neediness. Yet the speaker’s deepest anxiety appears to be that rumor and reputation, putting these ...

Liberation from this specular struggle, however, is held out by the promise of royal“grace,”which here means something more than ...

It may seem that the rhetoric which appropriates the petitioner as metaphorically“sick,” a diminished counterexample to the mona ...

in the clashing tonalities of Dunbar’s poem, the intercessory queen is a virago–John Thomson’s legendary wife–who should rule he ...

Or euir this wicht at heart be haill and feir healthy,vigorous Both thow and I most in the court appeir, For he hes lang maid se ...

ʒett will he tak ane vther and gar it suey. cause;sway Quha best can rewll wald maist haue gouernance.” ( 101 – 05 ) Bawcutt see ...

the records and by modern historical accounts. In what seems to have been a conscious attempt to displace the very different“art ...

any notion of sincerity and even identity. This slipperiness has its ground in a body enclosed by pain and poverty, and subject ...

advance. Once again, theFürstenspiegeltradition is clear that commentary such as Dunbar’s–or for that matter Hoccleve’s or Desch ...

contrast the monarch’s splendor, and thus identifies with the structure that makes of that splendor a necessity, and keeps ruler ...

chapter 4 Translative senses: Alexander Barclay’sEclogues and Gavin Douglas’sPalice of Honour To move from Dunbar to Gavin Dougl ...

It is beyond the scope of this chapter to offer a detailed engagement with theEneadositself, though it should be pointed out tha ...