Description
Book SynopsisThomas Hoccleve produced the first author-curated 'collected poems' in the English language, preserved in two complementary manuscripts: Huntington Library, MSS HM 111 and HM 744 (copied 1422-26). This is the first full modern edition of these poems. The twenty-eight pieces span Hoccleve's entire career: they range from stirring devotional verse, to playful autobiography, deft translations of Latin and French texts, and timely political verse. The collection comprises the entirety of Hoccleve's poetic corpus, save his two longer works, the Regiment of Princes and the Series. It includes some of Hoccleve's most celebrated and widely studied poems, including 'The Epistle of Cupid', 'La Male Regle', 'To Sir John Oldcastle', 'Complaint Paramount', 'Learn to Die', and 'The Court of Good Company'. This edition engages for the first time with newly identified sources of poems; it also offers comprehensive textual variants for the poems, a full up-to-date chronology, and explanatory notes that engage with the wealth of recent scholarship on Hoccleve – including newly discovered details about Hoccleve's life and the dates of his poems, his relationship with heresy and orthodox reform movements, and his positioning within London scribal circles and coterie readerships.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHRONOLOGY
LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS & SIGLA
INTRODUCTION
NOTES ON EDITORIAL PRACTICE
HM 111
1. Complaint Paramount 2. To Sir John Oldcastle 3. La Male Regle 4. For Henry V at Kennington 5-6. Knights of the Garter 7. Mother of Life 8. The Bones of Richard II 9. Balade to Edward, Duke of York 10. Mother of God 11. Balade to John, Duke of Bedford 12. Balade to the Chancellor 13. Balade and Roundel to Henry Somer 14. Regiment of Princes envoi 15. Victorious King 16. Balade to John Carpenter 17. The Court of Good Company 18. Balade for Robert Chichele
HM 744
1. Inuocacio ad patrem
2. Ad filium
3. Ad spiritum sanctum
4. Worshipful Maiden
5. Mother of Grace
6. The Monk Who Clad the Virgin
7. The Epistle of Cupid
8. Henry V’s Last Return
9. Three Roundels
10. Learn to Die
TABLE: POEMS WITH WITNESSES BEYOND HM 111 & 744
TEXTUAL VARIANTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
