Overview
Modern annotations and a glossary accompany the satire, parody, lyricism, and allegory featured in this new selection of poems by John Skelton, who lived from approximately 1464 to 1529. England's first great modern poet, Skelton's work still has the power to surprise and shock with its formal inventiveness and its indictments of church, scholars, and state.Author Biography
John Skelton was an ordained priest and rector. He was poet laureate at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, a court poet for King Henry VII, and a tutor to King Henry VIII. Gerald Hammond is a professor of English at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Fleeting Things and The Making of the English Bible, and the editor of Selected Poems: Richard Lovelace.
