The John Skelton Page

( ?1460 - 1529 )

Major Works
Skelton's Complete English Poems is edited by John Scattergood and published by Yale, 1983. Contains a chronology, a glossary, explanatory and textual notes and a bibliography.

The Bowge of Courte ( ?1498 ). A bowge is a ship, used allegorically in this satire of court.
Dyvers Balettys and Dyties Solacyous ( ?1495 - 1500 ).
Magnyfycence, A Goodly Interlude ( ? 1515 - 1516 ).
The Tunnynge of Elynour Rummynge ( ?1517 ).
Speke Parrot ( ?1521 ).
Collyn Clout ( ?1522 ).
Why Come Ye Nat to Courte ( ?1522 ).
Phyllyp Sparowe ( ?mid 1540's ).
The Complete Poems of John Skelton. Edited by Philip Henderson. Dent, 1931.

About Skelton
H. L. R. Edwards, Skelton: The Life and Times of an Early Tudor Poet. Jonathan Cape, 1949.
Maurice Pollet, John Skelton, Poet of Tudor England. Associated Universities, 1975.
John Skelton. At the Luminarium. Bibliographical sketch, on-line works, reading list, links. Splendid as always.

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