Background
Hoccleve is thought to have been born in 1368/9. Nothing is known of his family, but his name may derive from the village of Hockliffe in Bedfordshire.
(Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first dis...)
Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. It provides students and other readers new to his work with a very fair indication of his range and achievement as original writer and translator and includes a full Introduction and marginal glosses. It also offers those more familiar with his work a fuller account than has hitherto been available of the manuscripts both of Hoccleve's own texts and, when he was translating from Latin or French, of his sources. Some of the themes and topics explored, with Hoccleve's light and witty touch, include women (for them or against them); money (always short of it, and as likely as not to be paid in counterfeit coin); isolation and suffering (causes various, but always painful); the pains of hell and the joys of heaven; the serendipitous nature of literary production; the writer as translator, reporter, or even as gossip.
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Thomas Hoccleve's Series, written c.1420 was edited for EETS in 1892. This is a new edition of the first two sections and glosses the poems more fully than before. The introduction presents new findings about Hoccleve, whose poems have attracted much attention in recent years.
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Hoccleve is thought to have been born in 1368/9. Nothing is known of his family, but his name may derive from the village of Hockliffe in Bedfordshire.
Nothing is known of Hoccleve's education.
Hoccleve's biography may be reconstructed from his own writings. At the age of about twenty he was appointed a clerk in the Privy Seal Office, a position not entirely suited to him. His marriage took place about 1410; thereafter he forsook the "misrule" of his youth, but financial worries continued to pursue him. When past fifty, he suffered a long illness, followed by a period of temporary insanity. Hoccleve retired from the clerkship in 1424 and was granted a pension, which he appears to have enjoyed for some 25 years, since a poem addressed by him to the Duke of York can be dated between 1446 and 1448. Hoccleve's best-known work is his Regiment of Princes, which was written for Henry V in 1411 and 1412. His minor poems include translations from the Gesta Romanorum, devotional and occasional poems, often containing requests for money, and his frankly autobiographical La Mâle Règle. On 4 March 1426 the Exchequer issue rolls record a last reimbursement to Hoccleve (for red wax and ink for office use). He died soon after. On 8 May 1426 his corrody at Southwick Priory was granted to Alice Penfold to be held "in manner and form like Thomas Hoccleve now deceased".
(Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first dis...)
(Thomas Hoccleve's Series, written c.1420 was edited for E...)
By 1410 Hoccleve had married "only for love" and settled down to writing moral and religious poems.