Hoccleve (Occleve), Thomas (c.1367–1426)
Apart from John *Lydgate the most significant named English poet of the 15th century. He was a clerk in the office of the privy seal and some of his poetry claims to describe (not without literary artifice) the events of his own life, as in ‘La Male Regle de Thomas Hoccleve’ (... ...
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