John Lydgate

John Lydgate

by Pearsall, Derek

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Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval. The book analyses Lydgate's background in literary tradition and compares this with Chaucer's work. The book looks at Lydgate as a professional craftsman and examines how his work adapted to the demands and occasions of his age. Without over-valuing the…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :John Lydgate / Derek Pearsall.

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Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval. The book analyses Lydgate's background in literary tradition and compares this with Chaucer's work. The book looks at Lydgate as a professional craftsman and examines how his work adapted to the demands and occasions of his age. Without over-valuing the poetry, this approach makes it possible to discriminate with increased objectivity between the more and less worthwhile and to distinguish the unexpectedly large number of poems in which craftsman-like competence rises to rhetorical artistry of a high order. In accepting Lydgate as the epitome of his age, the book also provides a diagram of the medieval poetic mind in its basic form and suggests the usefulness of Lydgate as a source book for the understanding of medieval literature.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1970.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge & K. Paul
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1970.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource ([10], 312 pages, 3 plates) : : 3 illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780429198205, 0429198205, 9780429584282, 0429584288, 9780429582387, 0429582382, 9780429580161, 0429580169, 9780429273223, 0429273223
  • DOI:10.4324/9780429198205
  • oclc:on1107880682
  • LC Classification:PR2037
  • Dewey Decimal:821/.2

Table of Contents

John Lydgate: the critical approach -- The Monastic background -- Chaucer and the literary background -- The courtly poems -- Troy and Thebes -- Laureate Lydgate -- Fables and didactic poems -- The fall of princes -- Lydgate's religious poetry.

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Subjects

Civilisation médiévale dans la littérat… Civilization, Medieval, in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Literary Criticism -- General Lydgate, John

Writers

Pearsall, Derek

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