John Lydgate
Subtitle: poetry, culture, and Lancastrian England
By: edited by Larry Scanlon and James Simpson.
Contributors: Scanlon, Larry.; Simpson, James, 1954-
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
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
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Lydgate's uneasy syntax / Phillipa Hardman; title: Lydgate's laureate pose Robert J. Meyer-Lee; title: Lydgate's poetics : laureation and domesticity in the temple of glass / Larry Scanlon; title: Propaganda, intentionality, and the Lancastrian Lydgate / Scott-Morgan Straker; title: "For al my body . . . weieth nat an unce" : empty poets and rhetorical weight in Lydgate's Churl and the Bird / James Simpson; title: Civic Lydgate : the poet and london / David Benson; title: The performance of the literary : Lydgate's mummings / Maura B. Nolan; title: "Stable in study" : Lydgate's Fall of Princes and Duke Humphrey's Library / Jennifer Summit; title: Lydgate, hawes, and the science of rhetoric in the late middle ages / Rita Copeland; title: "Hard is with seyntis for to make affray" : Lydgate the "poet-propagandist" as hagiographer / Fiona Somerset; title: "Was it not routhe to se?" : Lydgate and the styles of martyrdom / Ruth Nisse.