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The Fall of Princes

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Author : Robert Goolrick
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616205385
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Princes written by Robert Goolrick and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A heart-wrenching, beautiful, darkly comic, deeply necessary tale that stuns again and again with razor-sharp prose and glittering wit. Robert Goolrick is, without question, one of the greatest storytellers of our time.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife In the spellbinding new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick, 1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone. Until, one by one, they fall. Goolrick’s literary chops are on full display, painting an authentic portrait of a hedonistic era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy. Stunning in its acute observations about great wealth and its absence, and deeply moving in its depiction of the ways in which these men learn to cope with both extremes, it’s a true tour de force. “An addictive slice of semiautobiographical fiction . . . Goolrick vividly plumbs the depths of fortune and regret. The result is a compulsively readable examination of the highs and lows of life in the big city.” —Publishers Weekly “A compelling, wholly seductive narrative voice . . . Goolrick’s stellar prose infuses this redemption story with a good deal of depth and despair, making it read like the literary version of The Wolf of Wall Street.” —Booklist “A dark, intoxicating morality tale . . . With his impeccable prose, Goolrick focuses his unflinching eye on the grittiness beneath the sleek facade of nightclubs, fashion, and monied Manhattan extravagance. Beautifully crafted, seductive, and provocative.” —Garth Stein, author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain

John Lydgate

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Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book John Lydgate written by Larry Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A range of essays on Lydgate and his work which challenge preconceived notions of the quality and nature of Lydgate's writing

The Poetry of John Lydgate

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Author : Alain Renoir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429558007
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of John Lydgate written by Alain Renoir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967, The Poetry of John Lydgate presents a broad discussion of John Lydgate’s secular poetry. It reassesses much of the poetry through critical examination and suggests that Lydgate was not necessarily the master that the medieval ages proclaimed him to be, nor the plain poet that he is often seen as in modern analysis. Instead, the book suggest that he was a competent poetic craftsman that presents substantial literary form in his poetry. The analysis in the book looks at Lydgate as atypical of the Middle Ages, instead exhibiting traits currently linked to the Renaissance. The book provides a unique perspective on John Lydgate as a poet and will be of interest to medievalist and literary historians alike.

John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture

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Author : Maura Nolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521852982
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture written by Maura Nolan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Lydgate's Troy Book. A.D. 1412-20

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Lydgate's Troy Book. A.D. 1412-20 written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Lydgate

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Author : Derek Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429582382
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book John Lydgate written by Derek Pearsall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval. The book analyses Lydgate’s background in literary tradition and compares this with Chaucer’s work. The book looks at Lydgate as a professional craftsman and examines how his work adapted to the demands and occasions of his age. Without over-valuing the poetry, this approach makes it possible to discriminate with increased objectivity between the more and less worthwhile and to distinguish the unexpectedly large number of poems in which craftsman-like competence rises to rhetorical artistry of a high order. In accepting Lydgate as the epitome of his age, the book also provides a diagram of the medieval poetic mind in its basic form and suggests the usefulness of Lydgate as a source book for the understanding of medieval literature.

The Siege of Thebes

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 158044427X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Siege of Thebes written by John Lydgate and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lydgate's The Siege of Thebes, written c. 1421-22, is the only Middle English poetic text that recounts the fratricidal struggle between Oedipus's sons Eteocles and Polynices as they contend for the lordship of Thebes. The text reflects the problem of poetic authority and the political and ethical themes of Lydgate's poetic career in the 1420s, when he was writing as a Lancastrian propagandist and as unofficial royal poet.

John Lydgate's Fall of Princes

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Author : Nigel Mortimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199275014
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book John Lydgate's Fall of Princes written by Nigel Mortimer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Lydgate's Siege of Thebes

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lydgate's Siege of Thebes written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Middle English Iliad: John Lydgate's Troy Book

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781731538468
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book A Middle English Iliad: John Lydgate's Troy Book written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Britain, the works of Homer were practically unknown. In his absence, the half-remembered story of the Trojan War took on a distinctly Arthurian flavour, with the heroes Achilles and Hector reimagined as armoured knights on horseback, duelling with broadsword and lance. In 1412 the Prince of Wales commissioned John Lydgate, monk of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey and literary heir of Chaucer, to write him an English epic to rival those in the French and Latin. The result was Troy Book: 30,000 lines of decasyllabic rhyming couplets, completed in 1420 and dedicated to its patron--now King Henry V. Lydgate's primary source was the Latin prose Historia Destructionis Troiae of Guido delle Colonne, with supplementary material provided by Ovid, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as a variety of obscure Late Latin texts, such as Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, and the Mythologiae of Fulgentius. With this edition Troy Book receives its first translation into Modern English, allowing a new generation of readers to view the Trojan War through the eyes of a fifteenth-century Briton. D. M. Smith includes a detailed introduction tracing the development of the Troy myth from the Cyclic Poets to Lydgate and beyond, along with extensive notes on Lydgate's sources, and the narrative's relationship with the established Graeco-Roman mythology. Long dismissed as a medieval curiosity, Troy Book is at last restored to its proper context in the literary evolution of the Ancient Greek Epic Cycle.

Troy Book

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troy Book written by John Lydgate and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To introduce John Lydgate's landmark poem the Troy Book to students and non-specialist readers, the editor has selected the essential passages from the poem and bridges any gaps with textual summaries. Also included are an introduction, gloss, notes, and a glossary. John Lydgate, a monk of the great Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, began composing the poem, an ambitious attempt at recounting the Trojan War in Middle English, in October 1412 on commission from Henry, Prince of Wales (later King Henry V), and completed it in 1420. The poem is an interesting study for those interested in medieval approaches to classical sources, as well as for its often contradictory and complicated take on contemporary chivalry.

John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works

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Author : Megan L Cook
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444083
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works written by Megan L Cook and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death.

Medieval Graffiti

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Author : Matthew Champion
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473503639
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Graffiti written by Matthew Champion and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans and heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor and the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders’ accounts and slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex geometric designs, created to ward off the ‘evil eye’ and thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England’s medieval nobility.

The Serpent of Division

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Lydgate's Fall of Princes

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Lydgate's Fall of Princes written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900444260X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.

Lydgate's Temple of Glas

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Author : John Lydgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lydgate's Temple of Glas written by John Lydgate and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: