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Chaucer's “Short Poems” include complaints, love lyrics, and philosophical, religious, and political short verse. They are primarily written in courtly lyric forms taken from the French tradition, but most do not have direct French sources. The short poem that has drawn the most scholarly attention is the poem to “Adam Scriveyn,” both in terms of positing the actual scribe to be Adam Pinkhurst and more literary approaches which analyze the metaphors and images used. Other poems have garnered attention in terms of source study, formalism, gender study, historicism, and more.
Chaucer's “Short Poems” include complaints, love lyrics, and philosophical, religious, and political short verse. They are primarily written in courtly lyric forms taken from the French tradition, but most do not have direct French sources. The short poem that has drawn the most scholarly attention is the poem to “Adam Scriveyn,” both in terms of positing the actual scribe to be Adam Pinkhurst and more literary approaches which analyze the metaphors and images used. Other poems have garnered attention in terms of source study, formalism, gender study, historicism, and more.
Th omas Hoccleve: clerk of the Privy Seal, poet, and scribe. For a workaday fi gure in an era not celebrated for its great literature, that is a respectable list of identities. But it hardly makes him central to English literary history. He often complained about ill treatment in the offi ce. Th e poems in which he did so prompt such characterizations as the "na ï ve outpourings of his own hopes and fears … presented to us in all their crude immediacy" and conclusions as that "the Chaucerian music, which he tried to imitate, eluded him completely." 1 Even the idiosyncratic script in which he recorded that poetry set him apart from the attractive Anglicana hands of Ellesmere, Harley 3943, Harley 7334, and the rest. Th rough ca. 1977 this was the framework for any comparison of Hoccleve with the cosmopolitan London poets of the previous generation and the scribes of his own day. Th e following year, though, his fortunes suddenly shifted. A. I. Doyle and M. B. Parkes, in what has been called "Th e Essay Th at Started a Field," identifi ed Hoccleve as Scribe E on the Trinity R.3.2 copy of the Confessio Amantis. 2 Hoccleve, it was now apparent, copied not just Hoccleve but also Gower, and did so alongside the most prominent scribes of his day and age, Scribes B, who produced Hengwrt and Ellesmere, and D, who had recorded the works of Chaucer, Langland, Trevisa, and especially Gower. In the following year Doyle and Parkes revealed an even closer link between Th omas Hoccleve and Chaucer himself, identifying him as the most likely candidate as Hand F of the Hengwrt Canterbury Tales , who fi lled in some blank lines and half-lines on folios 83v, 138v, and 150r. 3 An index to the implications of this "far-reaching" discovery is David Lawton's suggestion, in 1985, that Hoccleve, not Chaucer, might have composed the links surrounding the Merchant's and Squire's Tale s. 4 Within a decade Derek Pearsall was advocating "the view that Hoccleve had something to do with preparing the Canterbury Tales for publication," drawing connections between the similarities of annotation and layout in Ellesmere and certain manuscripts of Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes. 5 And Hoccleve's importance terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.
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