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Author Renoir, Alain, author.

Title The poetry of John Lydgate / Alain Renoir
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 180 pages)
Series Routledge library editions, The Medieval world ; volume 40
Routledge library editions, Medieval world ; v. 40.
Contents Preface 1. Opinions About Lydgate 2. The Opinions Reconsidered 3. The Period of Transition 4. The Medieval Tradition 5. Classical Antiquity 6. The Paragon of Animals 7. The Nation and the Prince 8. The Story of Thebes 9. Another Point of View Notes Index
Summary Originally published in 1967, The Poetry of John Lydgate presents a broad discussion of John Lydgate's secular poetry. It reassesses much of the poetry through critical examination and suggests that Lydgate was not necessarily the master that the medieval ages proclaimed him to be, nor the plain poet that he is often seen as in modern analysis. Instead, the book suggest that he was a competent poetic craftsman that presents substantial literary form in his poetry. The analysis in the book looks at Lydgate as atypical of the Middle Ages, instead exhibiting traits currently linked to the Renaissance. The book provides a unique perspective on John Lydgate as a poet and will be of interest to medievalist and literary historians alike
Notes First published in 1967 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited."
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed July 24, 2019)
Subject Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? fast
Subject Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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