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. The book
analyses Lydgate's background in literary tradition and compares
this with Chaucer's work. The book looks at Lydgate as a
professional craftsman and examines how his work adapted to the
demands and occasions of his age. Without over-valuing the poetry,
this approach makes it possible to discriminate with increased
objectivity between the more and less worthwhile and to distinguish
the unexpectedly large number of poems in which craftsman-like
competence rises to rhetorical artistry of a high order. In
accepting Lydgate as the epitome of his age, the book also provides
a diagram of the medieval poetic mind in its basic form and
suggests the usefulness of Lydgate as a source book for the
understanding of medieval literature.
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