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John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak. By Jane Griffiths. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xii + 213 pp. 56 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-0-19-927360-7.

Recent studies of the enigmatic early Tudor poet John Skelton have emphasized the search for patronage as the primary motivating force behind many or most of the poet's works. In this important and significant new book Jane Griffiths demonstrates convincingly that Skelton's own search for literary authority shaped his written output to an equal or even greater...

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