This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.

Introduction - A S G Edwards
The Patronage of Poetry - Carol Meale
Forms of Circulation - Simon Horobin
Thomas Hoccleve - Sheila Lindenbaum
Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes - David Watt
John Lydgate's Major Poems - Robert J Meyer-Lee
John Lydgate's Religious Poetry - Anthony Bale
John Lydgate's Shorter Secular Poems - Joanna Martin
John Capgrave and Osbern Bokenham: Verse Saints' Lives - Sarah James
Peter Idley and George Ashby - John Scattergood
John Audelay and James Ryman - Susanna Fein
Fifteenth-Century Chaucerian Visions - Ad Putter
Historical and Political Verse - Alfred Hiatt
Classical and Humanist Translations - Daniel Wakelin
Romance - Andrew King
Scientific and Encyclopaedic Verse - Anke Timmermann
Popular Verse Tales - Julia Boffey
Beyond the Fifteenth Century - A S G Edwards