Hoccleve, Thomas

Hoccleve, Thomas

▪ English poet
Hoccleve also spelled  Occleve  
born 1368/69, London
died c. 1450?, Southwick, Eng.
 English poet, contemporary and imitator of Chaucer, whose work has little literary merit but much value as social history.

      What little is known of Hoccleve's life must be gathered mainly from his works. At age 18 or 19 he obtained a clerkship in the privy seal office in London, which he retained intermittently for about 35 years. His earliest dated poem, a translation of Christine de Pisan's L'Épistre au dieu d'amours, appeared in 1402 as “The Letter of Cupid.” His poem La Mâle Règle (1406; “The Male Regimen”) presents a vivid picture of the delights of a bachelor's evening amusements in the taverns and cookshops of Westminster. Hoccleve married in about 1411.

      In 1411 he produced The Regement of Princes, or De regimine principum, culled from a 13th-century work of the same name, for Henry, Prince of Wales. A tedious homily, it contains a touching accolade to Chaucer, whose portrait Hoccleve had painted on the manuscript to ensure that his appearance would not be forgotten. In his later years Hoccleve turned from the ballads addressed to his many patrons to serious religious verse and to recording the ills of the day in a literal-minded manner that presents a clear picture of the time. His most interesting work, La Mâle Règle, contains some realistic descriptions of London life.

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