Lydgate's Jailbird
- Author / Editor
- Sparks, Corey.
Lydgate's Jailbird
- Published
- SAC 36 (2014): 77-101.
- Description
- Reads "The Churl and the Bird" as John Lydgate's self-conscious rumination on "the poetic and philosophical implications" of willfully refusing to accept confinement. Includes comments on SqT, ManT, and Chaucer's influence on Lydgate.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Squire and His Tale
- Manciple and His Tale