Furnivall, Frederick J., ed.; Locock, Katharine, ed., The pilgrimage of the life of man, English by John Lydgate, A. D. 1426, from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville, A. D. 1330, 1335 (Early English Text Society Extra Series 77, 83, 92) Read this source online
Text name(s): Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
Number of pages of primary source text: 666
Author(s):
Dates: 1426 - 1426
Archival Reference:
Original Language(s):
- English - Middle English
Translation:
- Original language included.
Translation Comments:
Geopolitical Region(s):
- England
County/Region:
Record Types:
- Theology - Devotional
- Literature - Verse
- Translation
Subject Headings:
- Literature - Devotional
- Piety
Apparatus:
- Index
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Introduction
Comments:
This is an allegorical dream-vision poem, translated by Lydgate into Middle English. In addition to the long introduction, the book includes notes on the text, a glossary, a general index, and an index of names. The entire book is available on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse website.
Introduction Summary:
The introduction (62 pp.) discusses the relationship of De Guileville’s poem to the Romance of the Rose, the different versions of the poem, and the relationship of those versions to one another. Locock then examines Lydgate’s meter, language, and style, before discussing his relationship to Bunyan and The Pilgrim’s Progress.
Cataloger: MK
