John Skelton and Poetic Authority - Griffiths, Jane (Fellow in English, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

This is the first book-length study of John Skelton (1460-1529) for almost twenty years, and the first to link his poetic theory with his practice as a writer and translator. Reassessing Skelton's place in the English literary canon, it suggests the need to reconsider the conventional distinction between 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance' poetics.