This carefully crafted DigiCat ebook collection "The Poetical Works of John Skelton" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Of the death of the noble prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth Poeta Skelton laureatus libellum suum metrice alloquitur Tetrastichon ad Magistrum Rukshaw The Bowge of Courte Phyllyp Sparowe The tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng Poems against Garnesche Against venemous tongues How euery thing must haue a tyme Prayer to the Father of Heauen To the Seconde Parson To the Holy Gooste "Woffully araid," "Now synge we, as we were wont," "I, liber, et propera, regem tu pronus adora," The maner of the world now a dayes Ware the Hauke Epithaphe. A Deuoute Trentale for old John Clarke "Diligo rustincum cum portant," Lamentatio urbis Norvicen In Bedel, "Hanc volo transcribas," "Igitur quia sunt qui mala cuncta fremunt," "Salve plus decies quam sunt momenta dierum," Henrici Septimi Epitaphium Eulogium pro suorum temporum conditione, tantis principibus non indignum Tetrastichon veritatis Against the Scottes Vnto diuers people that remord this rymynge, Chorus de Dis contra Scottos Chorus de Dis, &c. super triumphali victoria contra Gallos Vilitissimus Scotus Dundas allegat caudas contra Angligenas Elegia in Margaretæ nuper comitissæ de Derby funebre ministerium Why were ye Calliope embrawdred with letters of golde? Cur tibi contexta est aurea Calliope? The Boke of Three Fooles A replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers abiured of late Magnyfycence, a goodly interlude and a mery Colyn Cloute... Speke, Parrot Why come ye nat to Courte Howe the douty Duke of Albany, lyke a cowarde knyght, ran awaye shamfully, Poems attributed to Skelton: Verses presented to King Henry the Seventh at the feast of St. George The Epitaffe of the moste noble and valyaunt Jaspar late Duke of Beddeforde Elegy on King Henry the Seventh Vox populi, vox Dei The Image of Ipocrysy...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing approaches to Chaucer have rightly been considered as a catalyst for the elevation of English as a literary language and the birth of an English literary history. There is a tendency, however, when moving from Chaucer's self-professed poetic followers of this time to the philological approach associated with William Caxton and the 1532 Works, to pass over the literary careers of the English and Scots poets belonging to the intervening half-century: John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas. This volume redresses that neglect. Its close and comparative readings of these poets' stimulating but critically neglected dream visions and related first-person narratives reveal a spectrum of ideas of authorship: four distinct engagements with tradition and opportunity, united by their utilisation of a particular form. It regards authorship as a topic of invention, a discourse for appropriation, which is available to but not inevitable in late medieval and early modern writing. Overall, it facilitates newly focussed study of an often obscured literary-historical period, one with a heightened interest in the authors of the past - Chaucer, Lydgate, Petrarch, Virgil - but also an increasingly acute perception of the conditions of authorship in the present.