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Thomas Hoccleve

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Thomas Hoccleve (1369 – 1426)

  1. contemporary of Chaucer
  2. Works
    1. Letter of Cupid 1402
      1. A translation and adoptation of French poet Christine de Pisan’s Epistre au Dieu d’Amours (1399)
      2. Courtly poetry
    2. La Male Regle ( The Male Regimen) 1406**
      1. Autobiographical poem. He describes his physical ailments, financial strains and moral feelings.
    3. De Regimine Principum (The Regiment of Princes, 1411 -12)
      1. Written for future King Henry V
      2. Written in seven line stanza.
      3. Hoccleave cites three sources for his poem: 1. Aristotle’s letter to Alexander the Great known as the Secreta Secretorum, 2. Aegidius Romanus’s De regimine principum 3. Jecob de Cessolis’ Chessbook

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