John Lydgate
- Author / Editor
- Pearsall, John.
John Lydgate
- Published
- London: Routledge and K. Paul; Charlottesville, N.C.: University of Virginia Press, 1970.
- Physical Description
- [x], 313 pp.
- Series
- Poets of the Later Middle Ages.
- Description
- Combines literary biography with genre-study to assess the poetry of John Lydgate, particularly his conventionality and craftsmanship, his techniques of amplification and idealization, his commonplaces and "categories of thought," internal and external evidence in establishing his canon, and the pervasive influence of Chaucer throughout his corpus. Cites many specific instances where Lydgate "plunders" Chaucer's works and contends that Chaucer raises Lydgate's "ambitions and extends his horizons." Yet, unlike Chaucer, Lydgate is "perfectly representative" of the Middle Ages in his "total acquiescence to conventions and the demands of his age."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion