John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame

Wider textual coverage might have yielded a more persuasive reading and it is an oversight not to have buttressed her argument with consideration of the relevant sections of Lydgate's immediate source (Laurent de Premierfait's prose Des cas des nobles homes et femmes, the conduit through w...

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Published inMedium Aevum Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 146 - 148
Main Author MORTIMER, NIGEL
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature 01.01.2014
Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature
Subjects
Flannery, John
Persuasion
Poetics
Prose
Reputations
REVIEWS
Rhyme
Writers
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Summary:Wider textual coverage might have yielded a more persuasive reading and it is an oversight not to have buttressed her argument with consideration of the relevant sections of Lydgate's immediate source (Laurent de Premierfait's prose Des cas des nobles homes et femmes, the conduit through which he accessed Boccaccio's De casibus.) A concluding chapter extends Flannery's discussion beyond the Lydgate canon to explore two mid-Tudor de casibus texts indebted to the Fall - George Cavendish's Metrical Visions (a rhyme-royal sequence of twenty-three laments) and the first two instalments of William Baldwin's contribution to the sprawling Mirror for Magistrates tradition, which was taken up by three further authors and only finally ran out of steam in 1610.
ISSN:0025-8385
2398-1423