biography
| name: |
Hoccleve or Occleve, Thomas
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pronunciation:
[hokleev]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1368–c.1450)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in London, UK. He spent his life as a clerk in the privy seal office in London (1378–1425). His chief work, The Regement of Princes (1411) is a free but tedious version, in the style of Chaucer, of the De regimine principum of Aegidius Romanus (13th-c) on the duty of a ruler. His autobiographical poem La male regla (1406, The Male Regimen) is of more value as social history, with its vivid account of night life in Westminster. |
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