John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451)[1] was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England.
Lydgate's poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines. He explored and established every major Chaucerian genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like the fabliau. In the Troy Book (30,117 lines), an amplified translation of the Trojan history of the thirteenth-century Latin writer Guido delle Colonne, commissioned by Prince Henry (later Henry V), he moved deliberately beyond Chaucer's Knight's Tale and his Troilus, to provide a full-scale epic.
The Siege of Thebes (4716 lines) is a shorter excursion in the same field of chivalric epic. Chaucer's The Monk's Tale, a brief catalog of the vicissitudes of Fortune, gives a hint of what is to come in Lydgate's massive Fall of Princes (36,365 lines), which is also derived, though not directly, from Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium.[2]
The Man of Law's Tale, with its rhetorical elaboration of apostrophe, invocation, and digression in what is essentially a saint's legend, is the model for Lydgate's legends of St. Edmund (3693 lines) and St. Alban (4734 lines), both local monastic patrons, as well as for many shorter saints' lives, though not for the richer and more genuinely devout Life of Our Lady (5932 lines).
^Platt, Colin (1996). King Death: The Black Death and its aftermath in late-medieval England. London: UCL Press Limited. ISBN 1-85728-313-9.
^Mortimer, Nigel, John Lydgate's 'Fall of Princes': Narrative Tragedy in its Literary and Political Contexts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005).
JohnLydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate's poetic output is prodigious...
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but Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. 'Chichevache' literally means 'niggardly' or 'greedy cow'." In the early fifteenth century JohnLydgate wrote...
Troy Book is a Middle English poem by JohnLydgate relating the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end of the Trojan War. It is in five...
authors of more respectable works such as JohnLydgate's religious and historical literature. JohnLydgate and Thomas Occleve were among the first critics...
works of art relating to Edmund include Abbo's Passio Sancti Eadmundi, JohnLydgate's 15th-century Life, the Wilton Diptych, and a number of church wall paintings...
outlook despite having been christened. In 1412, the English priest JohnLydgate observed in Troy Book, "For naturelly blod wil ay of kynde / Draw unto...
long poem by English poet JohnLydgate. It is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's work De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, which Lydgate knew in a French translation...
attested by the many poets who imitated or responded to his writing. JohnLydgate was one of the earliest poets to write continuations of Chaucer's unfinished...
Arezzo – Fons memorabilium universi 1420s? The Awntyrs off Arthure 1420 JohnLydgate – Siege of Thebes (poem) Approximate date: Andrew of Wyntoun – Orygynale...
and sales patter appearing in a ballad, entitled London Lyckpeny by JohnLydgate probably written in the late 1300s and first performed around 1409. Shakespeare...
1869 and 1870: the novel "Middlemarch" (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story "Miss Brooke" (which focused on the character of Dorothea)...
on the practice of comparison. For example, 15th century English poet JohnLydgate wrote "[o]dyous of olde been comparsionis", which was reflected by many...
Mahakavya by Nayachandra Suri (Sanskrit) The Fall of the Princes by JohnLydgate (1431–1438) Yuan Phai (Thai: ลิลิตยวนพ่าย) by Royal Poets of King Borommatrai-lokkanat...
the Lai de l’Oiselet, was retold by JohnLydgate as The Churle and the Bird. Rather later English poets included John Skelton who composed The Garlande...
Pardon Churchyard at Old St Paul's Cathedral, London, with texts by JohnLydgate (1370–1451) known as the 'Dance of (St) Poulys', which was destroyed...
New Version, Chiefly From Original Sources. Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. London: John Murray. Kevin Dutton (2012). The Wisdom of Psychopaths. Random...
Thomas Wolsey hailed from Ipswich; and author, poet and Benedictine monk JohnLydgate. Richard Hakluyt the great recorder of exploration and voyages was a...
seen as displacing the Classical beings. 15th-century poet and monk JohnLydgate wrote that King Arthur was crowned in "the land of the fairy" and taken...
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("The Fortunes of Famous Men"), used by JohnLydgate to compose his Fall of Princes, tells of many where the turn of Fortune's...
Bishop John Moore in 1714.” This volume is a compendium of Caxton’s first run of vernacular poetry, and the texts within appear as follows: JohnLydgate, Stans...
ISBN 0-19-920502-7. Schirmer, Walter F. (1961). JohnLydgate. Translated by Keep, Ann E. University of California Press. Wagner, John A., ed. (2001). "Jacquetta of Luxembourg...
ISBN 978-0521319232. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Schirmer, Walter Franz (1979). JohnLydgate: A Study in the Culture of the XVth Century. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood...
wolf also eats the boy. This happens in Fables for Five Years Old (1830) by John Hookham Frere, in William Ellery Leonard's Aesop & Hyssop (1912), and in...
England. During Henry's coronation as king of England in 1429, poems by JohnLydgate were read to stress further Henry's dual inheritance of England and France...
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sotil ordynaunce As hyt ys in remembraunce By thise Philosophurs olde. JohnLydgate, Reson & Sensuallyte Earliest known English reference to Rithmomachia...
dream vision poem by an unknown author (it was originally attributed to JohnLydgate, but scholars now agree that is unlikely that he wrote it). The poem...
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