My Compleinte and Other Poems
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
“The wealth of detail noticed and reported on by Ellis is absolutely staggering . . . It is a serious work, offered by a committed textual scholar who has investigated all the complex issues of authority and transmission . . . it allows us to bring into the classroom data about the complex and unique history of textual transformation for Hoccleve’s works, a real “behind the scenes” look at medieval authorship and composition . . . One thing is certain, the reader will know Hoccleve well as poet, translator and scribe after reading this edition cover to cover, all the way through, as Hoccleve long ago exhorted us to do. Ellis’s edition, bursting at the seams with historical, textual and critical detail, a feast of both matter and art, will doubtlessly be a major factor in the renaissance of Hoccleve studies.” -The Medieval Review
Fronticepiece
Acknowledgements
Sigla of Manuscripts and Other Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes Editorial Principles
A Note on Hoccleve’s Language
Minor Verse
I. ‘Conpleynte paramont’
Notes
II. ‘La male regle de T. Hoccleue’
Notes
III. ‘Balade et chanceon…a mon meistre H. Somer’
Notes
IV. ‘Balade…[pour] mon meistre Robert Chichele’
Notes
V. ‘Item de beata Virgine’
Notes
VI. ‘L’epistre de Cupide’
Notes
VII. The Series
1. ‘My compleinte’
Notes
2. ‘A dialoge’
Notes
3. ‘Fabula de quadam imperatrice Romana’
Notes
4. ‘Ars vtillissima sciendi mori’
Notes
5. ‘Fabula de quadam muliere mala’
Notes
Appendices
1. The stanzas added to the ‘Conpleynte paramont’ in the Middle English Pilgrimage of the Soul
2A. A comparison of the version of Hoccleve’s first Gesta narrative with selected Latin and Middle English analogues
2B. The source of Hoccleve’s ‘Balade…translate au commandement de…Robert Chichele.’
3. The glosses to ‘Ars vtillissima sciendi mori’ in S and D
4. Additional notes on the textual relations of the non-holograph copies of the ‘Conpleynte paramont,’ ‘Epistre de Cupide’ and the Series
5. Selected variants from the non-holograph manuscript copies of the texts here edited
Bibliography
Editions of texts or selections
Secondary literature
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