John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Flannery, Mary C.
John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame
- Published
- Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xi, 208 pp.
- Description
- Looks at fame in medieval texts and argues that although Lydgate was Chaucer's fifteenth-century successor, he "diverges from Chaucer's treatment" of fame by "constructing a more confident model of authorship."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion