John Skelton / edited by Anthony S.G. Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, A. S. G. (Anthony Stockwell Garfield), 1942-

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skelton, John, 1460?-1529--Criticism and interpretation.

Skelton, John.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

Contents:

Introduction

Note on the text

William Caxton on Skelton, c. 1490

Erasmus on Skelton, 'that incomparable light and ornament of British letters', c. 1499

Alexander Barclay on 'Philip Sparrow', 1509

'The great chronicle of London' on Skelton and his contemporaries, c. 1510

Henry Bradshaw on Skelton and other superior poets, c. 1513

William Lily on Skelton : 'neither learned, nor a poet', c. 1519

Robert Whittinton in praise of Skelton, the 'learned poet', 1519

John Bale on the life of Skelton, 1557

William Bullein on Skelton's satires on Wolsey, 1564

Thomas Churchyard in praise of Skelton, 1568

John Grange on Skelton's 'ragged ryme', 1577

William Webbe on Skelton : 'a pleasant conceyted fellowe', 1586

George Puttenham on Skelton's metre, 1589

Gabriel Harvey on Skelton, the 'madbrayned knave', c. 1573-80, 1592

Arthur Dent on Skelton's immoral works, c. 1590

Michael Drayton in praise of Skelton, c. 1600, 1606, 1619

'Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cappe' in praise of 'Elynor Rumming', 1609

Nicholas Breton on Skelton's 'ruffling rimes', 1612

Humphrey King on Skelton and other 'merry men', 1613

William Browne on Skelton, 1614

Henry Peacham on Skelton's unmerited reputation, 1622

'A banquet of jests' on the neglect of Skelton, 1639

James Howell on the neglect of Skelton, 1655

Thomas Fuller's biography of Skelton, 1662

Edward Phillips on Skelton's current obscurity, 1675

An eighteenth-century critic in praise of 'Elynor Rummyng', 1718

Alexander Pope on 'beastly Skelton', 1737

Elizabeth Cooper in praise of Skelton, 1737

Samuel Johnson on Skelton, 1755

Thomas Wharton on Skelton, 1778

Philip Neve on Skelton : 'a rude and scurrilous rhymer', 1789

Robert Southey on Skelton's genius, 1814

William Gifford in praise of Skelton, 1816

Ezekiel Sanford on Skelton's life and works, 1819

The 'Retrospective review' in praise of Skelton, 1822

William Wordsworth on Skelton : 'a demon in point of genius', 1823, 1833

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 'Philip Sparrow', 1827, 1836

Henry Hallam on Skelton : 'certainly not a poet', 1837

Isaac D'Isreali on Skelton's genius, 1840

Elizabeth Barrett Browning in praise of Skelton, 1842

Agnes Strickland on Skelton : 'this ribald and ill-living wretch', 1842

The 'Quarterly review' on Dyce's edition of Skelton, 1844

Hippolyte Taine on Skelton the 'clown', 1863

'Dublin University magazine' on Skelton, 1866

James Russell Lowell on Skelton and 'Philip Sparrow', 1875, 1889

John Churton Collins on Skelton, 1880

Richard Hughes on Skelton, 1924

Edmund Blunden on Skelton's 400th anniversary, 1929

Humbert Wolfe on Skelton's innovation, 1929

Robert Graves on Henderson's edition of Skelton, 1931

W.H. Auden on Skelton 'the entertainer', 1935

G.S. Fraser on Skelton, 1936

E.M. Forster on Skelton, 1950

C.S. Lewis on Skelton, 'the really gifted amateur', 1954.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-78382-5

1-280-32500-3

0-203-19687-2

0-203-28657-X

9780203196878

OCLC:

275196821