Author : Mary-Jo Arn
Release : 2005-05-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems write by Mary-Jo Arn. This book was released on 2005-05-01. The Kingis Quair and Other Prison Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers have noticed that the fifteenth century saw a remarkable flourishing of poems written in conditions of physical captivity or on the subject of imprisonment. The largest body of this poetry is from the pen of Charles of Valois, duke of Orleans, who was captured by the English at the battle of Agincourt in 1415 and not released until 1440. The longest single poem on the subject is James I of Scotland's The Kingis Quair, purportedly written at the time of his release from an eighteen-year imprisonment in England .This volume reflects the wide scope of these prison poems by bringing together a new edition of The Kingis Quair, a selection from Charles d'Orleans' Fortunes Stabilnes, a poem by George Ashby, who was imprisoned in London's Fleet prison, and the poems of two other poets, both anonymous, who wrote about physical and/or emotional imprisonment.