John Lydgate (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
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John Lydgate wrote only one significant piece of prose, The Serpent of Division. Scholars are uncertain as to its exact date of composition, but Walter Schirmer, in his John Lydgate: A Study in the Culture of the Fifteenth Century (1961), suggests the year 1422. Drawing on Lucan’s Pharsalia (c. 80 c.e.) and Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum Historiale, Lydgate here presents the first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of Julius Caesar ever written in English. As in other writings, Lydgate uses this story as an...
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