Hoccleve

American  

[hok-leev] / ˈhɒk liv /

noun

1. Thomas, 1370–1450, English poet.

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Example Sentences

It was used by Thomas Hoccleve in the Letter of Cupid to describe someone who was slovenly or dirty.

From BBC • May 9, 2011

The best part of this is an autobiographical prelude Mal Regle de T. Hoccleve, in which he holds up his youthful follies as a warning.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

That the worthy Lydgate and Hoccleve, without any of Chaucer's good luck, failed to tread in his footsteps, is thus hardly surprising.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

This rhythmical measure he proceeds to show in Hoccleve, Lydgate, Hawes, Barclay, Skelton, and even Wyatt; and thus concludes, that, it was first abandoned by Surrey, in whom it very rarely occurs.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

Lydgate and Hoccleve are the two principal successors of Chaucer.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules