The Politics of Beastly Language: John Lydgate as Fabulist and Translator.
- Author / Editor
- Garrett, Richard.
The Politics of Beastly Language: John Lydgate as Fabulist and Translator.
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 97 (2018): 481-97.
- Description
- Assesses the cock-and-fox fable in Lydgate's "Isopes Fabules" and his "The Churl and the Bird" as public poetry, exploring how underlying concerns with authority and translation link with his "conscious concern with social conditions and with his proper position" in society. Includes discussion of Lydgate's sources, including Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion