The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600

one of SIR THOMAS WYATT’s most well-known, appears in two manuscript versions and was also printed in TOTTEL’S MISCELLANY in 155 ...

FURTHER READING Baird-Lange, Lorrayne Y. “Symbolic Ambivalence in ‘I Haue a Gentil Cok.’ ” Fifteenth-Century Studies 11 (1985): ...

her son, rather than focusing on why God might have chosen Mary. This mention of Mary’s choice under- scores the reciprocal natu ...

First she says that she always wished him well and always will, and that if he is determined to be a hus- band, she hopes God wi ...

C D 230 JAMES I (1394–1437) king of Scotland James I was born in Dunfermline in late July 1394 to Robert III (d. 1406) and Annab ...

En glish literary theory; Daemonologie (1597) covers the occult; Basilikon Doron (1599) and The True Law of Free Monarchies (159 ...

at her and then steps on her foot. The fi nal stanza reveals the secret that a bold dalliance has had serious consequences. In t ...

warrior (l. 179) and hateful to the Savior (l. 45) and remov- ing all examples of his direct speech, the poet makes Holofernes a ...

C D 234 KENNING The word kenning is derived from the Old Norse expression kenna eitt við (“to express rela- tionally” or “to mak ...

dom and slaughter all its inhabitants who do not renounce Christianity. The Saracens are reluctant to kill Horn outright because ...

KINGIS QUAIR, THE JAMES I (ca. 1424) The Kingis Quair by JAMES I, king of Scotland, opens with an image of the heavens that serv ...

“KNOLEGE, AQUAYNTANCE, RESORT, FAUOU R W IT H GR ACE” JOHN SKELTON (1527) This is the third of fi ve poems collectively given th ...

C D 238 LAI See LAY. LA MALE RÈGLE THOMAS HOCCLEVE (ca. 1405) THOMAS HOCCLEVE’s La Male Règle is a 448-line poem divided into 56 ...

Knapp, Ethan. The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England. University Park: Penn State Un ...

who die brings to mind the visual image of the danse macabre, in which Death leads or hauls people away from their earthly life; ...

knights and performing good deeds. As the days go by, Lanval is full of joy at his newfound love, who comes to him anywhere, any ...

the city. One knight is married to a beautiful wife; the second, a bachelor, is in love with the wife of the fi rst (who has gra ...

explicit insistence on the Breton origin of these stories is due to the widespread belief, corroborated by Marie de France, that ...

worked well for writers such as JOHN GOWER, BOCCAC- CIO, and Christine de Pizan, scholars reveal that Chau- cer found it uninspi ...

vant brings it to Procne, who fi nds her sister and res- cues her from the castle. The eighth legend tells of Phyllis and Demoph ...