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CR Episode 255: Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe

Critical Readings
Critical Readings
Episode • Jan 20 • 1h 5m
The panel reads "The Boke of Phyllyp Sparowe" by the Tudor poet John Skelton, a poetic champion of Chaucer, and the inventor of Skeltonic verse, a roughly syllabic and strongly rhymed form of English poetry much beloved of the Henrician court.