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    John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate's poetic output is prodigious...
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  • Look up Lydgate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lydgate may refer to: John Lydgate (1370–1451), English monk and poet John Mortimer Lydgate (1854–1922)...
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    but Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. 'Chichevache' literally means 'niggardly' or 'greedy cow'." In the early fifteenth century John Lydgate wrote...
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    Troy Book is a Middle English poem by John Lydgate relating the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end of the Trojan War. It is in five...
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    works of art relating to Edmund include Abbo's Passio Sancti Eadmundi, John Lydgate's 15th-century Life, the Wilton Diptych, and a number of church wall paintings...
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    authors of more respectable works such as John Lydgate's religious and historical literature. John Lydgate and Thomas Occleve were among the first critics...
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  • outlook despite having been christened. In 1412, the English priest John Lydgate observed in Troy Book, "For naturelly blod wil ay of kynde / Draw unto...
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    1869 and 1870: the novel "Middlemarch" (which focused on the character of Lydgate) and the long story "Miss Brooke" (which focused on the character of Dorothea)...
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  • Siege of Thebes is a 4716-line poem written by John Lydgate between 1420 and 1422. Lydgate composed the Siege of Thebes directly following his composition...
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    long poem by English poet John Lydgate. It is based on Giovanni Boccaccio's work De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, which Lydgate knew in a French translation...
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  • Arezzo – Fons memorabilium universi 1420s? The Awntyrs off Arthure 1420 John Lydgate – Siege of Thebes (poem) Approximate date: Andrew of Wyntoun – Orygynale...
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    and sales patter appearing in a ballad, entitled London Lyckpeny by John Lydgate probably written in the late 1300s and first performed around 1409. Shakespeare...
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    attested by the many poets who imitated or responded to his writing. John Lydgate was one of the earliest poets to write continuations of Chaucer's unfinished...
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    on the practice of comparison. For example, 15th-century English poet John Lydgate wrote "[o]dyous of olde been comparsionis", which was reflected by many...
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    Bishop John Moore in 1714.” This volume is a compendium of Caxton’s first run of vernacular poetry, and the texts within appear as follows: John Lydgate, Stans...
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    Mahakavya by Nayachandra Suri (Sanskrit) The Fall of the Princes by John Lydgate (1431–1438) Yuan Phai (Thai: ลิลิตยวนพ่าย) by Royal Poets of King Borommatrai-lokkanat...
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    New Version, Chiefly From Original Sources. Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. London: John Murray. Kevin Dutton (2012). The Wisdom of Psychopaths. Random...
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    De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("The Fortunes of Famous Men"), used by John Lydgate to compose his Fall of Princes, tells of many where the turn of Fortune's...
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    Pardon Churchyard at Old St Paul's Cathedral, London, with texts by John Lydgate (1370–1451) known as the 'Dance of (St) Poulys', which was destroyed...
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    ISBN 0-19-920502-7. Schirmer, Walter F. (1961). John Lydgate. Translated by Keep, Ann E. University of California Press. Wagner, John A., ed. (2001). "Jacquetta of Luxembourg...
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    the Lai de l'Oiselet, was retold by John Lydgate as The Churle and the Bird. Rather later English poets included John Skelton who composed The Garlande...
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    Thomas Wolsey hailed from Ipswich; and author, poet and Benedictine monk John Lydgate. Richard Hakluyt the great recorder of exploration and voyages was a...
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  • Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno...
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    seen as displacing the Classical beings. 15th-century poet and monk John Lydgate wrote that King Arthur was crowned in "the land of the fairy" and taken...
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    wolf also eats the boy. This happens in Fables for Five Years Old (1830) by John Hookham Frere, in William Ellery Leonard's Aesop & Hyssop (1912), and in...
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    Fabules was written in Middle English rhyme royal stanzas by the monk John Lydgate towards the start of the 15th century. Seven tales are included and heavy...
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    England. During Henry's coronation as king of England in 1429, poems by John Lydgate were read to stress further Henry's dual inheritance of England and France...
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  • scholar of medieval English literature and published books on Beowulf and John Lydgate and was honored with a festschrift in 1992 for his scholarly activities...
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  • dream vision poem by an unknown author (it was originally attributed to John Lydgate, but scholars now agree that is unlikely that he wrote it). The poem...
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  • Johnson Ben Jonson John Keble Thomas Ken Charles Kingsley John Lydgate Andrew Marvell James Merrick Alice Meynell Henry Hart Milman John Milton Henry More...
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