...May Tomlinson Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 Rosamond and Lydgate May Tomlinson It is one of the mysteries of life that man s natural desires and instincts should be antagonistic to that which most surely makes for moral and spiritual growth. If this life is meant...

..., 950 David Lorenzo Boyd almost all the texts assume courtly subjects as readers, and many are written under the guise of furthering the author/narrator in amatory pursuits. Take, for example, the first text in the manuscript, John Lydgate s Complaint of a Lover s Life. Probably written sometime...

..., and the practice of a country surgeon . . . competing for patients with old Dr. Kittermaster . . . recalls some of Lydgate s troubles in Middlemarch. Haight presents the reviews of the novels, the sales, American reprints, and translations; he discusses unsigned contributions to periodicals. The biography points...

... Dr. Lydgate as a participant in the rise of scientific medicine whose private failure as taxonomist of his own life thwarts his professional aspirations, and it shows that banker Bulstrode s hypocrisy, the consequence of abstract financial enterprise allied with evangelical Protestantism...

... to differ considerably in tone and diction from those by Lydgate, with whom he also contrasts in respect to his feminist sympathies. The final chapter, on Hoccleve and Chaucer, stands a little apart from the book s main concern. Here Mr. Mitchell gives an interesting discussion of the portraits of Chaucer...

... is further credited with a knack for handling direct discourse in a lively fashion and with introducing several traditional genres (such as the mirror for princes) into English literature. His Marian lyrics are shown to differ considerably in tone and diction from those by Lydgate, with whom he also...

... and her sister s wedding, and the practice of a country surgeon . . . competing for patients with old Dr. Kittermaster . . . recalls some of Lydgate s troubles in Middlemarch. Haight presents the reviews of the novels, the sales, American reprints, and translations; he discusses unsigned contributions...

... is reflected not only in historical writings but also in such diverse works as Lydgate s Fall and Nowell s Catechism, in city pageants, courtly entertainments, treatises on literary theory, sermons, tragedies, and romances in prose and verse. A failure to recognize the strength of this tradition is bound...

... reading of key passages with awareness of his­ torical contexts illuminates both the work of art and the idea of work. For instance, his analysis reveals Dr. Lydgate as a participant in the rise of scientific medicine whose private failure as taxonomist of his own life thwarts his professional...

... into the story, three separate groups of characters, three different love affairs Dorothea and Casaubon, Rosamond Vincy and Lydgate, and Mary Garth and Fred Vincy. Such a wealth of invention must have proved to the author an embarrassment of riches. It is a hard matter for a novelist to handle so many love...

... must be good; and Myers decided that there is a God and yet we need not be good. The burden of the Eliot message comes out clearly in Middlemarch in the passage where Dorothea and Dr. Lydgate are discus­ sing the vicar, Mr. Farebrother. After a long discourse on Farebrother s qualities, Lydgate...

... of tragedy presiding at the birth of the modern novel. Instead of the gripping extremes of Greek and Shakespearean dramas, ending in death, we find the sickening failure of Dr. Lydgate as a man, the severe ordeal of Richard Feverel, or the attempt of Lord Fleetwood to crush the spirit of Carinthia Jane...

... in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the sixteenth century the conventions of classical formal verse satire were modified by a whole complex of native English satires, written by Langland, Gower, Lydgate, Chaucer, and Skelton, which cannot be described in classical terms but must be referred to as verse...

..., and the manuscripts are usually not very elaborate; few come to us in the Aureate Collections with works by Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. Perhaps the most famous is the Auchinleck MS, which contains eigh­ teen romances among the forty-four surviving items (thirteen of the original have been lost...

... a microscope or a magic lantern. The first summons asso- ciations with specimens under a glass, resonating with Tertius Lydgate’s Bichat-inspired embrace of the microscope’s revelatory powers: That great Frenchman first carried out the conception that living bodies, fundamentally...

... the control of memory. John Lydgate s practical advice to anyone who wanted to avoid the plague (and who wouldn t?) shows that avoidance to have been both cognitive and physical, reflecting the doctrine that plague could be spread through an imbalance of the humors as well as the fear that it was airborne...

... in the tradition of Boccaccio s De casibus virorum illustrium and John Lydgate s Fall of Princes, ran, in the words ofone literary historian, a career perhaps more complex and influential than that of any other Elizabethan book. 7 But no poem in the Mirror was more influential than Shore s Wife. Already by 1563...