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CR Episode 255: Skelton’s Phyllyp Sparowe
Published 1 year, 8 months ago
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Released on 20 January 2025:
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.