Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland

sole surviving copy of what is probably hisfinal poem,The Comfort of Lovers, the formula has changed–he is“somtyme grome”of the ...

cloak truths with“clowdy fygures.”^11 Such terminology is resonant for the court poet: just as the“truth”of the exegetes is cloa ...

allegorized love-quest, and constantly propelling it onward with phrases such as“So forth I rode”and“So forth I went.” His subse ...

If Amoure has literary affinities with Deguileville’s Pilgrim, however, the two are also some distance apart. For if the iconogr ...

Such sudden and unprepared movements from speaking lover to speaking book and back tend to be explained away either as authorial ...

Whan she was gone, inwardly than wrought Vpon her beaute my mynde retentyfe. Her goodly fygure I graued in my thought. ( 1506 – ...

[I saw clearly that no one has come that way since I’d entered, for the sharp-bladed grass had not been disturbed and the bright ...

Hawes’s words express a traditional affinity betweenratioandoratio,well- ordered words denoting order in humanity and state.^23 ...

fare you well, for I must frome you go To other louers whiche are in dyspayre, As I dyde you to confort them also. ( 2486 – 88 ) ...

The compiler of Rawlinson C. 813 , or of the exemplar behind this section of the MS, was clearly able to envisage some of the ly ...

What it [sic] this worlde but a blast of wynde? I must nedes dye; it is my natyf kynde.” And as I was at this conclusyon, To me ...

eschatological implications emerge into thematic consciousness. This is in every sense a“fatalfiction”; a pleasant pastime becom ...

attests a move away from poeticfiction to a vantage point from which the discrete episodes that have preceded it, with their dis ...

Withouten tyme is no erthely thynge: Nature, fortune, or yet dame sapyence, Hardynes, clergy, or yet lernynge, Past, future, or ...

point he has been both knight and Christian subject, clad in the Pauline armor ofEphesians 6 , 13 – 18.^41 But when the hermit s ...

does indeed borrow the generic framework ofLe Chevalierand its crucial device of structural disclosure–and the absence of Englis ...

stasis, the use of personification–the poem consistently prefigures that resolution. A multiplicity of successive generic speake ...

as bestes & with oute entendement / I haue therfore destroyed their blood and so shall I do thyn yf thou canste not assoylle ...

with the theme of love–the very“balades of feruent amyte”( 1391 ) the poem deplores–serves in part to mislead, distracting the r ...

that underwrite the poem’s discussions of rhetoric, where rhetoric as Ciceronian force for law and civil order is linked to a se ...