Four Hundred Years of Poetry: The First Tudor Poet

Meet John Skelton

Dear bookish friend,

I have returned from my weeks away—I turned in the book yesterday! Fitting, because a new season is just around the corner: my children return to school in a week and a half, and we are turning now to Early Modern poetry.

Tutor and cleric John Skelton, alternately admired and maligned depending on the era at hand, was the first real …