Talk:Thomas Occleve
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I found this page to be horribly out of date and dismissive of Hoccleve - so I partially edited it to correct the blatant misrepresentations of Hoccleve's work and life - which, contrary to the impression given by the original entry, is now considered to have quite a bit of significance to scholars of the late medieval period. The original encyclopedia entry, possibly lifted almost directly from the public domain Encyclopedia Brittanica, reflected assumptions about the aesthetics of poetry that have been considered close-minded and nearly blasphemous for at least the last 40 years - on top of an expressed distaste for the "post-Chaucer" works of poetry of the fifteenth century.
