John Lydgate
John Lydgate of Bury () 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''.
''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). Provided by Wikipedia
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Eine Festschrift Der Realschule Zu Berlin, 1882 by Lydgate, John
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Duquesne Studies: Philological Series: 2: a Critical Edition Of John Lydgate's Life Of Our Lady By Joseph A. Lauritis ... General Editor: Ralph A. Klinefelter ... Vernon F. Gallagh... by Lydgate, John
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A New Ploughman's Tale: Thomas Hoccleve's Legend Of the Virgin and Her Sleeveless Garment, With a Spurious Link Edited From Ms. Clii, Christ Church, Oxford (Chaucer's Canterbury Ta... by Lydgate, John
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Lydgate's Troy Book. A.D. 1412-1420 Edited From the Best Manuscripts With Introduction, Notes, and Glossary By Henry Bergen by Lydgate, John
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Lydgate's Temple Of Glas Edited With Introduction and Notes By J. Schick by Lydgate, John
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Lydgate's Siege Of Thebes Edited From All the Known Manuscripts and the Two Oldest Editions, With Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary, By Axel Erdmann by Lydgate, John
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Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte Edited From the Fairfax Ms. 16 (Bodleian) and the Additional Ms. 29,729 (Brit. Mus.) By Ernst Sieper by Lydgate, John
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Lydgate's Minor Poems The Two Nightingale Poems. Edited From the Mss. With Introduction, Notes and Glossary By Otto Glauning by Lydgate, John
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Lydgate's Fall Of Princes Edited By Dr. Henry Bergen ... Presented To the Early English Text Society By the Carnegie Institution Of Washington by Lydgate, John
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The Assembly Of Gods Or the Accord Of Reason and Sensuality In the Fear Of Death By John Lydgate. Edited From the Mss. With Introduction, Notes, Index Of Persons and Places, and Gl... by Lydgate, John
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This Present Boke Called the Gouernaunce Of Kynges and Prynces Imprynted At the Comaundement Of the Good and Honourable Syre Charles Somerset Lorde Herbert: and Chaumberleyne Unto... by Lydgate, John
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The Serpent Of Division By John Lydgate the Monk Of Bury Edited, With Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary By Henry Noble Maccracken by Lydgate, John
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The Pilgrimage Of the Life Of Man, Englisht By John Lydgate, A.D. 1426, From the French Of Guillaume De Deguileville, A.D. 1330, 1355 The Text Edited By F. J. Furnivall ... With In... by Lydgate, John
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The Minor Poems Of John Lydgate Edited From All Available Mss. With an Attempt To Establish the Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble Maccracken ... Text Re-Read With the Mss. By Merriam S... by Lydgate, John
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The Minor Poems Of John Lydgate Edited From All Available Mss. With an Attempt To Establish the Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble Maccracken by Lydgate, John
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The Lay Folks Mass Book Or the Manner Of Hearing Mass With Rubrics and Devotions For the People In Four Texts: and Offices In English According To the Use Of York: From Manuscripts... by Lydgate, John
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The Dance Of Death Edited From Mss. Ellesmere 26/A.13 and B. M. Lansdowne 699, Collated With the Other Extant Mss. By Florence Warren: With Introduction, Notes, Etc. By Beatrice Wh... by Lydgate, John
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Mummings and entertainments / by Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate's Fabula duorum mercatorum and Guy of Warwyk / by Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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Lydgate's minor poems. The two nightingale poems. (A. D. 1446) by Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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