Chaucer and Lydgate
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, Derek.
Chaucer and Lydgate
- Published
- Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 39-53.
- Description
- Chaucer gave Lydgate his language, his verse forms, and his poetic style--with the urge to refine and elaborate them into a high medieval art. Lydgate's career is arguably a determined effort to emulate and surpass Chaucer in each of the major poetic genres that Chaucer had attempted. The most striking example is Lydgate's building the Troy Book on Chaucer's TC.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.