John Lydgate

By: Derek Pearsall

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Hardcover | 10 July 2019 | Edition Number 1

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330 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.91

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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. Analysis of Lydgate's background in literary tradition, and particularly comparison with Chaucer, provides a basis for an examination of his work, as the response of a professional craftsman, 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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