John Lydgate

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English poet medieval poet monk person

John Lydgate was a prolific 15th-century English monk and poet known for his lengthy narrative and allegorical works that helped shape late medieval English literature.

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English poet → medieval poet → monk → person →
centuryOfActivity	15th century →
contemporaryOf	Thomas Hoccleve →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of England →
dateOfBirth	c. 1370 →
dateOfDeath	c. 1451 →
educatedAt	Bury St Edmunds Abbey →
genre	allegorical poetry → narrative poetry →
influenced	later Tudor poets →
influencedBy	Geoffrey Chaucer →
knownFor	allegorical works → lengthy narrative poems → shaping late medieval English literary tradition →
languageOfWorkOrName	Middle English →
literaryForm	didactic allegory → verse narrative →
literaryPeriod	Middle English literature →
memberOf	Benedictine Order →
monasticHouse	Bury St Edmunds Abbey →
movement	late medieval English literature →
notableWork	The Fall of Princes → The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man → The Siege of Thebes → The Temple of Glas → The Troy Book →
occupation	monk → poet →
partOf	Chaucerian tradition →
patron	Henry V of England → Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester →
placeOfActivity	Bury St Edmunds →
placeOfBirth	Lydgate, Suffolk →
placeOfDeath	Bury St Edmunds →
religion	Catholicism →
religiousOrder	Benedictines →
style	ornate rhetorical style →
wroteInResponseTo	Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales →
wroteText	The Fall of Princes → The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man → The Siege of Thebes → The Temple of Glas → The Troy Book →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Thomas Hoccleve →	contemporaryOf
Ricardian poets →	hasNotableMember
Geoffrey Chaucer →	influenced