John Skelton, Priest As Poet: Seasons of Discovery

by Arthur F. Kinney

Overview

Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the liturgy underlie the themes and image clusters of Skelton's poems and argues that liturgical music, especially the plainsong, informs all of Skelton's meters. What emerges is the portrait of a consistent, determined, and imaginative poet in whose canon poetics is grounded in the marriage of teaching and preaching. The study sheds new light on the interrelationships of politics, poetry, and religion in Renaissance England.

Originally published in 1987.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781469644097
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	06/15/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

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From the Publisher

This book finally dislodges the belief that Skelton's poems are cryptograms for which we have lost the key. With extraordinary erudition Arthur Kinney combines and completes recent investigations into the figural, liturgical, musical, and political dimensions of Skelton's canon and shows how even Elynour Rummyng is a product of Skelton's priestly integrity and zeal.—Annabel Patterson

Editorial Reviews

"This book finally dislodges the belief that Skelton's poems are cryptograms for which we have lost the key. With extraordinary erudition Arthur Kinney combines and completes recent investigations into the figural, liturgical, musical, and political dimensions of Skelton's canon and shows how even "Elynour Rummyng" is a product of Skelton's priestly integrity and zeal."--Annabel Patterson

From the Publisher