{"id":22,"date":"2020-07-31T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T07:38:00","slug":"age-of-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/index.php\/age-of-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Revival: English & Scottish Chaucerians"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Age of Revival<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>

Age of Revival<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>

Importance of the age of revival\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/h3>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/b>The Age of Revival perceived the facts like\u00a0The War of Roses, Cade Rebellion, Wyatt and Surrey<\/b>introduced the sonnet <\/b>form, and the writings of the English <\/b>and Scottish <\/b>Chaucerian. In this age, focus on classical learning of literature.\u00a0<\/span>According to William J Long,<\/span><\/div>

\u201cThe 15th<\/sup>century was an age of preparation, of learning the beginning of science and of getting acquainted with the great ideals, the stern law, the profound philosophy, the suggestive mythology and the noble poetry of the Greek and Romans. So, the mind was furnished with ideas for new literature.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>

Poetic Trends<\/span><\/b><\/h4>
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The pastoral <\/span><\/b>is an important vehicle for satire of court and urban life. Alexander Barclay used this form in his\u00a0 <\/span>five Eclogues<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Allegorical poetry <\/span><\/b>imitated by English and Scottish Chaucerian.<\/span><\/b><\/div>
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English Chaucerians<\/strong><\/h3>

Thomas Hoccleve (1369-1426)<\/strong><\/h4>

His first work is Letter of Cupid, <\/em>which was published in 1402. And his major poems were The Male Regimen <\/em><\/strong>(autobiographical poem), and The Regiment of Princes (1411-12)<\/em><\/strong>was written for King Henry V, when he was Prince of Wales.<\/p>

John Lydgate (1370-1449)<\/strong><\/h4>

He was a Benedictine monk who belongs to the prestigious Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. His only prose work, The Serpent of Division, <\/em><\/strong>was published in 1422. And his major poems are The Troy Book (1412-20), The Siege of Thebes (1420-22), <\/em><\/strong>and The Fall of Princes (1431-38).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

The Siege of Thebes (1420-22)<\/em><\/strong>elaborates 4540 line exemplum chronicling the disastrous careers of King Oedipus, his sons Eteocles and Polynices, and Creon. In this work poet imagines himself joining Chaucer\u2019s pilgrims in Canterbury and narrate a tale companion to\u00a0The Knight\u2019s Tale.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

Stephen Hawes (1475- 1525)<\/strong><\/h4>

He was served to King Henry VII of England. His long allegorical poem, The Passetyme of Pleasure (1509), <\/em><\/strong>based on the Knight Graunde Amoure. <\/strong>His other notable work was The Example of Vertu.<\/em> Written in the form of rhyme royal stanza.<\/p>

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John Skeleton (1460-1529)<\/strong><\/h4>

He was a prominent Tudor poet and satirist, Erasmus <\/strong>called him \u2018the one light and glory of British letters\u2019 because his contribution towards translations of classics and his Latin verses.<\/p>

His major works are Of the Death of the noble prince King Edward IV (elegy), The Bowge of Court (satire of court), Colin Clout (1521), <\/em><\/strong>and Magnificence (1516).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

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Alexander Barclay (1474-1552)<\/strong><\/h4>

His most famous work is The Ship of Fools (1509), <\/em><\/strong>is an adaptation of a German satire, Das Narrenschiff<\/strong>, by Sebastian Brant. This work describes a ship laden with fools setting sail for the fool\u2019s paradise of Narragonia.<\/p>

Other English Chaucerian<\/strong><\/h4>

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