Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue

Description

"Thomas Hoccleve's sequence of poems now known as the 'Series' was composed ca. 1420. The present, new edition is limited to the first two sections of the 'Series' known as the 'Complaint' and 'Dialogue'. These are the only two sections of the 'Series' which have not survived in Hoccleve's autograph. This edition presents a reconstructed text of these sections, based on current knowledge of Hoccleve's language, spelling and metre, alongside a transcription of the text presented in Bodl. MS Selden Supra 53, the fifteenth-century scribal copy which most closely represents Hoccleve's linguistic and metrical preferences." "The Notes to the Text and glossary are much fuller than in the Furnivall edition, and the Introduction presents new findings about a poet who has been attracting much attention in recent years."--Jacket.

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