John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame

Author / Editor
Flannery, Mary C.

Title
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