John Lydgate

John Lydgate (* 1370 in Lidgate, Suffolk; † around 1451 ) was an English monk and poet.

At the age of fifteen, he was taken in the Benedictine Convent at Bury St. Edmunds, and gained there, and probably at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge a comprehensive education. He was a great admirer of Chaucer's poetry. His own literary ambitions were by the Kings Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI. support, and so he took the time, the position of poet laureate of the English kings. However, his most important mentor was Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.

He wrote a large number of allegories and fables and poems, some of them of immense extent. Worth mentioning the epic poems Fall of Princes, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes. However, today's critics appreciate his work as a secondary.

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