Skelton - Criticism Flashcards
(12 cards)
J.A. Burrow: Collyn Clout “speaks…”
J.A. Burrow: Collyn Clout “speaks for all classes of the laity”
J.A. Burrow: [Of the prelates in Collyn Clout] they are “to blame …
J.A. Burrow: [Of the prelates in Collyn Clout] they are “to blame for things that are wrong with the secular clergy who serve the parishes”
J.A. Burrow: Lower clergy have been corrupted by Wycliffism as a result of the “consequences…”
J.A. Burrow: Lower clergy have been corrupted by Wycliffism as a result of the “consequences that have stemmed from the glaring faults of those at the top of the Church hierarchy”
[…] (Skelton Project): notes that Cardinal Wolsey’s influence…
Hiske Fennestra (Skelton Project): notes that Cardinal Wolsey’s influence was widely resented among the laity at the time of the poem’s composition; it was viewed as unjust that the son of a butcher should possess such wealth and authority, and the influence of the crown at Court
J.A. Burrow: laymen and clergy complained at Wolsey’s attempts to “reform…”
J.A. Burrow: laymen and clergy complained at Wolsey’s attempts to “reform the legal system by ensuring swift justice in the Star Chamber, his attacks on sanctuary and on the wealth of minor religious houses”
William Nelson: Of the term ‘prelates’ “the plural…”
William Nelson: Of the term ‘prelates’ “the plural is transparently singular”
F.W. Brownlow: Speke, Parrot is “for the most part…”
F.W. Brownlow: Speke, Parrot is “for the most part an attack on Cardinal Wolsey for his foreign, ecclesiastical, and education policies, and for his influence on the king”
F.W. Brownlow: Speke, Parrot “is organised…”
F.W. Brownlow: Speke, Parrot “is organised according to a system of ideas, which… would have been perfectly comprehensible, even commonplace, to Skelton’s educated contemporaries”
John M. Berdan: The parrot is “not…” so can “bring…”
John M. Berdan: The parrot is “not logical” so can “bring any amount of casual gibberish”
Stanley Fish: In ‘Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?’ “Private spite…”
Stanley Fish: In ‘Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?’ “Private spite is never left behind; significant trains of thought are allowed to die in the early stages of their development”
Eugene Fish: Of ‘Why Come’ “This is personal…”
Eugene Fish: Of ‘Why Come’ “This is personal poetry and the public framework is merely a dramatic convenience”
C.S. Lewis: “There is…”
C.S. Lewis: “There is no building in his work, no planning, no reason why any piece should stop where it does… and no kind of assurance that any of his poems is exactly the poem he intended the write”
