Lydgate's Views on Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Ebin, Lois (A.)
Lydgate's Views on Poetry
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 18 (1977): 76-105.
- Description
- Lydgate's introduction of new critical terms and definitions--"enlumyn," "adourne," "enbelissche," "aureate," "goldyn," "sugrid," "rhetorik," and "elloquence"--shift poetry's emphasis from the variety and pleasure found in Chaucer's writings, to clarity and truthfulness later found in the works of every major fifteenth-century writer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.