Poets And Power From Chaucer To Wyatt By Robert J. Meyer-lee
by Robert J. Meyer-Lee /
2007 / English / PDF
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In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry. Following Chaucer and others, Hoccleve and Lydgate brought to English verse a style and subject matter writing about their King, nation, and themselves, and their innovations influenced a continuous line of poets running through and beyond Wyatt.
