Canon, period, and the poetry of Charles of Orleans

"During his twenty-five-year imprisonment, Charles wrote hundreds of poems in French and English, including the over 6,500 lines that form the first single-author lyric book in English. Coldiron analyzes several aspects of this poetry's significance, including its positions in literary history and theory and its unusual challenges to medieval and renaissance period categories.

This book explores Charles's poetic subjectivity and also presents unprecedented original primary research on the poet's final manuscript, a French-Latin book in facing-column format. With literary sensitivity, a richly contextualizing comparative method, and common sense, Coldiron argues that these translations connect cultures, languages, and literary traditions that were undergoing a crucial moment of conflict and separation just before the Tudor period.".

"This book will be useful to a wide range of literary scholars, particularly those interested in cross-cultural literary relations, comparative literature, or the history of poetry in French and English.

Scholars of medieval and early modern poetry and those interested in the history of literary translation will be particularly interested in the ground-breaking work contained here, yet a wider scholarly readership will also find Coldiron's insights and approaches applicable in many other areas of literary inquiry."--BOOK JACKET.