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John Lydgate of Bury ( c. 1370 – c. 1451) [1] 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.
Obra. Fue un escritor prolífico de poemas, alegorías, fábulas y romances, si bien sus obras más famosas fueron sus largos y célebres poemas narrativos Troy book ("El libro de Troya ", comenzado en 1412), Siege of Thebes ("El asedio de Tebas", de 1422) y la Fall of Princes ("La caída de los príncipes").
22 de mar. de 2024 · John Lydgate was an English poet, known principally for long moralistic and devotional works. In his Testament Lydgate says that while still a boy he became a novice in the Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, where he became a priest in 1397. He spent some time in London and Paris; but from 1415.
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Walter F. Schirmer's John Lydgate (1952, translated, 1961), the first of the important book-length studies, is still the most useful because of its careful placement of Lydgate in historical and literary-historical context.
For Derek Pearsall's bibliography of critical and scholarly works on Lydgate, click here. John Lydgate, Chaucer's most prolific admirer, was born in Suffolk in 1370 in the village of Lydgate near the abbey of Bury St. Edmund's, which he entered as a postulate when he was about fifteen years old.
This edition of Lydgate’s 'Dance of Death' offers a detailed comparison of the different text versions of the poem, as well as a new scholarly edition and translation of Marchant’s 1485 French 'Danse Macabre' publication, along with an art-historical analysis of its woodcuts.
29 de sept. de 2014 · John Lydgate (b. c . 1370–d. c . 1450) was a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. He entered the novitiate at fifteen and in his forties served as prior of Hatfield Broad Oak (Hatfield Regis) in Essex. He was also indisputably the most prominent vernacular poet in England in the first half of the 15th century.
