Abstract
Thomas Hoccleve worked the hardest to install Geoffrey Chaucer as the Father of English Poetry and to claim his own position as direct lineal heir in this literary genealogy. Chaucer's paternal title was not articulated in exactly these words until John Dryden's famous assessment in the Preface to the Fables (1700)â"he is the Father of English Poetry." 1 But the notion of a patrilineal inheritance was already formulated within a generation of the poet's death in 1400 when Hoccleve sought to place himself in this family tree of immediate literary descendants in his famous commendation from The Regiment of Princes:
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