New Perspectives on Lydgate's Courtly Verse
- Author / Editor
- Bianco, Sue.
New Perspectives on Lydgate's Courtly Verse
- Published
- Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 95-115.
- Description
- Critical reception of Lydgate has been prejudiced by negative comparisons with Chaucer. Fuller appreciation of Lydgate's poetry depends on recognizing that, while moral and political issues in Chaucer are largely exemplary, Lydgate writes to effect moral and political change-reflecting a "new and distinct fifteenth-century poetics."
- Alternative Title
- Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.