Poems

Résumé du livre

Robert Copland (fl. 1505-1546) had a long career as a poet, translator, and printer. This volume includes Iyl of Braintfords Testament, a bequest of fart poems indebted to Chaucer's Summoner's Tale; The Seuen Sorrows That Women Haue When Theyr Husbandes Be Deade, in which conventional misogynist satire moves into psychological complexity; and Copland's most important work, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, an account of vagabond life outside the law in which thieves' cant first sees print. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR