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John Lydgate (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was an English monk and poet, who wrote in various genres and translated Chaucer and Guido delle Colonne. Learn about his life, works, patrons, and legacy in this comprehensive article.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Learn about John Lydgate, a prolific poet and Chaucer's admirer, who wrote many works of translation and instruction. Find out his biography, his style, his patrons, and his relation to Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale.
- Pearsall, John Lydgate (1997), pp. 14 and 31.
- Edwards, “Lydgate Manuscripts,” p. 21. Some contemporary humor might be found in an important early manuscript containing The Temple of Glas copied by John Shirley (BL Add.
- Simpson, Oxford English Literary History, p. 52.
- For comprehensive accounts of the poet’s biography and bibliography, see Schirmer, John Lydgate; Pearsall, John Lydgate (1970); and more recently Pearsall, John Lydgate (1997).
A book review and an interview with the author of a study on John Lydgate, a fifteenth-century English poet and Chaucer's successor. The book explores how Lydgate used fame as a literary device and a political tool in his works.
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Sep 29, 2014 · A comprehensive overview of the life, works, and legacy of John Lydgate, the most prominent vernacular poet in England in the first half of the 15th century. Includes references to recent scholarship that challenges and refines earlier interpretations of Lydgate's poetics, historical context, and literary influence.
