biography
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| lived:
| (c.1460–1529)
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| biography:
| Satirical poet, born in Norfolk, E England, UK. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge universities, was tutor to Prince Henry (the future Henry VIII), took holy orders in 1498, and became rector of Diss in 1502, but seems to have been suspended in 1511 for having a concubine or wife. He had produced some translations and elegies in 1489, but began to write satirical vernacular poetry, overflowing with grotesque words and images and unrestrained joviality, as in The Bowge of Courte (c.1499), Colyn Cloute (1522), and Why come ye nat to courte (1522). His favourite metre, with short lines based on the rhythms of natural speech and quick, recurring rhymes, is known as skeltonic. |
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