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John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame (Hardcover)
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John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame (Hardcover)
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An examination of the subject of "fame" in Lydgate, showing it as
central to his work. John Lydgate is arguably the most significant
poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer's
literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to
overshadow his contributions to English literature.Here, "fame" is
identified as the key to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning in
Chaucer's wake. The author begins by situating Lydgatean fame
within the literary, cultural and political landscape of
late-medieval England, indicating how Lydgate diverges from
Chaucer's treatment of the subject by constructing a more confident
model of authorship, according to which poets are the natural
makers and recipients of fame. She then discusses the ways in which
Lydgate draws on fourteenth-century poetry, the advisory tradition,
and the laureate ideology borne out of trecento Italy; she shows
that he deploys them to play upon reader anxieties in his short
poems on dangerous speech, while depicting poets as the ultimate
arbiters of fame in his longer poems and dramatic works.
Throughout, the book challenges standard critical positions on
questions relating to how poets fit into late-medieval society, how
they canbe powerful enough to admonish princes, and how English
letters fare next to the literature of the continent and of
antiquity. Mary C. Flannery is Lecturer in English at the
University of Lausanne.
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