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• Lydgate, John — • Writer, born at Lydgate, Suffolk, about 1370; d. probably about 1450. He entered the Benedictine abbey at Bury when fifteen and may have been educated earlier at the school of the Benedictine monks there and have been afterwards at the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Lydgate, John — (ca. 1370–ca. 1449)    John Lydgate was a Benedictine monk from Bury Saint Edmunds who wrote more poetry than any other known medieval English poet.He was much praised by his contemporaries and by writers in the years immediately following his… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Lydgate, John — ▪ English writer born c. 1370, Lidgate, Suffolk, Eng. died c. 1450, Bury St. Edmunds?  English poet, known principally for long moralistic and devotional works.       In his Testament Lydgate says that while still a boy he became a novice in the… …   Universalium

• Lydgate,John — Lyd·gate (lĭdʹgāt , gət), John. 1370? 1451?. English poet who is best known for his long narrative works. * * * …   Universalium

• LYDGATE, JOHN —    an early English poet; was a monk of Bury St. Edmunds in the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries; was a teacher of rhetoric as well as a poet, and a man of some note in his day …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Lydgate, John — (1370? 1451?)    Poet, b. in Suffolk, was ordained a priest in 1397. After studying at Oxf., Paris, and Padua, he taught literature in his monastery at Bury St. Edmunds. He appears to have been a bright, clear minded, earnest man, with a love of… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature