Antony J. Hasler is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Saint Louis University.

"This work is a challenging examination of eight poets associated with royal courts, English and Scottish, between 1485 and 1528. Its concern is the way in which these writers engage with authority—royal, political and patronal, cultural, literary, and generic — and how those engagements shape the poetic I." --Renaissance Society of America

• Introduction; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Dunbar's aureate allegories and André's Vita Henrici Septimi; 2. The Bowge of Courte and the birth of the paranoid subject; 3. 'My panefull purs so priclis me': the rhetoric of the self in Dunbar's petitionary poems; Part II. Translative Senses: 4. Alexander Barclay's eclogues and Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour; 5. Mémoires d'outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and Stephen Hawes; 6. Mapping Skelton: 'Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet'; 7. Conclusion.

Antony J. Hasler is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Saint Louis University.

"This work is a challenging examination of eight poets associated with royal courts, English and Scottish, between 1485 and 1528. Its concern is the way in which these writers engage with authority—royal, political and patronal, cultural, literary, and generic — and how those engagements shape the poetic I." --Renaissance Society of America

• Introduction; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Dunbar's aureate allegories and André's Vita Henrici Septimi; 2. The Bowge of Courte and the birth of the paranoid subject; 3. 'My panefull purs so priclis me': the rhetoric of the self in Dunbar's petitionary poems; Part II. Translative Senses: 4. Alexander Barclay's eclogues and Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour; 5. Mémoires d'outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and Stephen Hawes; 6. Mapping Skelton: 'Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet'; 7. Conclusion.

Antony J. Hasler is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Saint Louis University.

"This work is a challenging examination of eight poets associated with royal courts, English and Scottish, between 1485 and 1528. Its concern is the way in which these writers engage with authority—royal, political and patronal, cultural, literary, and generic — and how those engagements shape the poetic I." --Renaissance Society of America

• Introduction; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Dunbar's aureate allegories and André's Vita Henrici Septimi; 2. The Bowge of Courte and the birth of the paranoid subject; 3. 'My panefull purs so priclis me': the rhetoric of the self in Dunbar's petitionary poems; Part II. Translative Senses: 4. Alexander Barclay's eclogues and Gavin Douglas's Palice of Honour; 5. Mémoires d'outre-tombe: love, rhetoric and Stephen Hawes; 6. Mapping Skelton: 'Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet'; 7. Conclusion.