An Edition of Miles Hogarde’s “A Mirroure of Myserie”
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 06/03/2021
This is the first edition of A Mirroure of Myserie (1557), a poem by the Catholic propagandist Miles Hogarde and probably presented to Queen Mary. Cast as a dream vision, this combative dialogue draws on William Langland’s widely circulating medieval poem The Vision of Piers Plowman and offers a critical assessment of sixteenth-century morality in[…]