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This chapter provides contexts to appreciate the poetic features as well as the historical and political perspectives of poetry. It also treats particular authors and specific political circumstances. The chapter considers poetry justifying the new Lancastrian regime, the distinctive verse chronicles from early fifteenth-century Scotland, as well the indirectly topical English ‘Digby lyrics’ and beginnings of a mythic view of Henry V, before considering the historical and political poetry of Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, and the partisan poetry of the Wars of the Roses, when new, more nationally unifying uses for long historical poetry also emerged. The century’s final historical poetry by Blind Hary in Scotland, and John Skelton in early Tudor England, marks the final separation of verse from more overtly ‘factual’ English historical prose narrative. |
