Poems that Speak Volumes: Lydgate’s "Thoroughfare of Woe," and Lyric as Epitome.

Author / Editor
Boffey, Julia.

Title
Poems that Speak Volumes: Lydgate’s "Thoroughfare of Woe," and Lyric as Epitome.

Published
Julia Boffey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 189–200.

Description
Transcribes a version of Lydgate's "Thoroughfare of Woe" from London, British Library, Additional MS 60577 (the "Winchester anthology") and discusses it in light of other versions, commenting on it as "an extended meditation on a proverbial saying"” but also discussing its invocations of and epitomizing engagement with other works, including Chaucer’s Truth, Gent, For, and especially KnT.

Alternative Title
Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
Truth
Gentilesse
Fortune