Occleve

[ ok-leev ]

noun

1. Hoccleve.

Example Sentences

He gives us, for example, the germ of the romance of “Guy of Warwick”; the story of “Darius and his Three Sons,” versified by Occleve; part of Chaucer’s “Man of Lawes’ Tale”; a tale of the emperor Theodosius, the same in its main features as that of Shakespeare’s Lear; the story of the “Three Black Crows”; the “Hermit and the Angel,” well known from Parnell’s version, and a story identical with the Fridolin of Schiller.

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And here again, as in Occleve, we see that it is for his language rather than for his invention that the poet is praised.

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Lydgate and Occleve, the most noted poets of the period, invariably refer to him as their master.

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The gracious figure of Sapience, her dress gleaming with jewels, her head crowned with a diadem, is very different from any being of Lydgate’s or Occleve’s creation; already the first rays of Renaissance light are showing above the horizon, and the cold gray mists of fifteenth-century poetry are dispersing before its warmth and brilliance; but the radiance that heralds the new era is that of sunrise, flushing the world with a wonder of colour, rather than of that light of common day in which Chaucer is content to walk.

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In the concluding lines of the first eclogue, which contains the story of Jonathas, Browne confesses his indebtedness to Occleve:— Scholler unto Tityrus Tityrus the bravest swaine Ever lived on plaine ... thus using for Chaucer the name bestowed on him by Spenser.

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