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John Skelton (c 1460-1529) has long been recognised as a poetic innovator, most notably for his invention of the verse-form that bears his name, the Skeltonic. Its origins have been traced to a wide variety of poetic genres and even prose forms; this chapter, however, argues that it also owes a great deal to Skelton’s own earlier writing in the well-established verse-form of rhyme royal. The chapter first traces connections between the ostentatiously experimental Skeltonic and Skelton’s less conspicuous experiments with sound pattern in rhyme royal; it then argues that formal experimentation shapes Skelton’s understanding of poetic authority as something derived from the poet’s own technical skill rather than from external sources.
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John Skelton (c 1460-1529) has long been recognised as a poetic innovator, most notably for his invention of the verse-form that bears his name, the Skeltonic.
Its origins have been traced to a wide variety of poetic genres and even prose forms; this chapter, however, argues that it also owes a great deal to Skelton’s own earlier writing in the well-established verse-form of rhyme royal.
The chapter first traces connections between the ostentatiously experimental Skeltonic and Skelton’s less conspicuous experiments with sound pattern in rhyme royal; it then argues that formal experimentation shapes Skelton’s understanding of poetic authority as something derived from the poet’s own technical skill rather than from external sources.
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