John Lydgate

ISBN-13: 9780367187781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 324 str.

Derek Pearsall

Opis

Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval.

Spis treści

General Preface  Author’s Note  1. John Lydgate: The Critical Approach  2. The Monastic Background  3. Chaucer and the Literary Background  4. The Courtly Poems  5. Troy and Thebes  6. Laureate Lydgate  7. Fables and Didactic Poems  8. The Fall of Princes  9. Lydgate’s Religious Poetry  10. Conclusion  Select Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Derek Pearsall