John Lydgate : poetry, culture, and Lancastrian England / edited by Larry Scanlon and James Simpson.

Other author Scanlon, Larry.
Other author Simpson, James, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2006.
Descriptionvi, 314 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?--Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and history--Great Britain. --History. --To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Great Britain--History. --Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.

Contents Lydgate's uneasy syntax / Phillipa Hardman -- Lydgate's laureate pose / Robert J. Meyer-Lee -- Lydgate's poetics : laureation and domesticity in the Temple of glass / Larry Scanlon -- Propaganda, intentionality, and the Lancastrian Lydgate / Scott-Morgan Straker -- "For al my body . . . weieth nat an unce" : empty poets and rhetorical weight in Lydgate's Churl and the Bird / James Simpson -- Civic Lydgate : the poet and London / C. David Benson -- The performance of the literary : Lydgate's mummings / Maura B. Nolan -- "Stable in study" : Lydgate's Fall of princes and Duke Humphrey's library / Jennifer Summit -- Lydgate, Hawes, and the science of rhetoric in the late Middle Ages / Rita Copeland -- "Hard is with seyntis for to make affray" : Lydgate the "poet-propagandist" as hagiographer / Fiona Somerset -- "Was it not routhe to se?" : Lydgate and the styles of martyrdom / Ruth Nisse.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005029345
ISBN0268041156 (alk. paper)
ISBN0268041164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780268041151

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