Item #447192 John Lydgate / Derek Pearsall. Derek Pearsall.

John Lydgate / Derek Pearsall

1970, First Edition. London : Routledge. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #447192
ISBN: 0710066465

Contents; John Lydgate: the critical approach -- The Monastic background -- Chaucer and the literary background -- The courtly poems -- Troy and Thebes -- Laureate Lydgate -- Fables and didactic poems -- The fall of princes -- Lydgate's religious poetry. Subjects; Criticism and interpretation. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

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