SKELTON, JOHN. - English satirical poet, b. perhaps at Diss around 1460, d. at Westminster on 21 June 1529.
He belongs to an age of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He was tutor to Prince Henry (the future King Henry VIII), author of allegories recalling Chaucer and Langland and of virulent satirical compositions that have more than once invited comparison with Rabelais. He is remembered above all for the allegorical poem Colin Clout (1519), which is a personal attack against Cardinal Wolsey, with whom the poet later became reconciled, and for the Boke of Philipp Sparrow, an elegy in which he paraphrases and dilutes the Catullan motif of the death of a sparrow into a long sequence of rather insipid verses.
BibliographyL. J. Lloyd, J. S., a sketch of his life and writings, Oxford 1938.
BIBL.: L. J. Lloyd, J. S., a sketch of his life and writings, Oxford 1938.
Guidi, Augusto. “Skelton, john.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 795. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/skelton-john.
MLA
Guidi, Augusto. “Skelton, john.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 795. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/skelton-john.
BibTeX
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author = {Guidi, Augusto},
title = {Skelton, john},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {795},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/skelton-john}
}
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