Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples
and is represented in this book by a selection of his works. They
have been newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. The
book includes a full Introduction and marginal glosses and presents
a complete modern edition of the Series, as well as some of
Hoccleve's earlier poems. It provides students and other readers
new to his work a very fair indication of his range and achievement
as original writer and translator. It also offers scholars a fuller
account than has hitherto been available of the manuscripts of
Hoccleve's own texts and, when he was translating from Latin or
French, of the manuscripts of his sources.
Some of the themes and topics explored, with Hoccleve's light
and witty touch, include women (for them or against them); money
(always short of it); isolation and suffering (causes various, but
always painful); the pains of hell and the joys of heaven; the
serendipitous nature of literary production; the writer as
translator, reporter, or even as gossip.
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