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John Lydgate

1370 - 1450

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John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) was an English monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate's poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines. He explored and established every major Chaucerian genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like the fabliau. In the Troy Book (30,117 lines), an amplified translation of the Trojan history of the thirteenth-century Latin writer Guido delle Colonne, commissioned by Prince Henry (later Henry V), he moved deliberately beyond Chaucer's Knight's Tale and his Troilus, to provide a full-scale epic. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Lydgate is the 6,565th most popular writer (down from 6,509th in 2019), the 6,004th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,783rd in 2019) and the 670th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, John Lydgate ranks 6,565 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Enright, Kim Young-ha, Karen Joy Fowler, Khady Sylla, P. C. Cast, and Joel Osteen. After him are George Farquhar, Alice Stone Blackwell, Cory Doctorow, Nina Bawden, Carlton Cuse, and Tõnu Õnnepalu.

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Among people born in 1370, John Lydgate ranks 22. Before him are James II, Count of La Marche, John of Görlitz, Temür Qutlugh, Muhammad VII of Granada, John IV, Duke of Mecklenburg, and Leonel Power.  Among people deceased in 1450, John Lydgate ranks 18. Before him are Leonello d'Este, Catherine Karlsdotter, Nils Jönsson, Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach, Giovanni d'Alemagna, and William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lydgate ranks 6,006 out of 8,785. Before him are Robin Montgomerie-Charrington (1915), Edwyn Collins (1959), Shirley Williams (1930), Michael Park (1966), Alan Mullery (1941), and Jacquetta Hawkes (1910). After him are Imogen Poots (1989), George Farquhar (1677), Colin McGinn (1950), Neil Warnock (1948), Nina Bawden (1925), and Tim Renwick (1949).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Lydgate ranks 670. Before him are Henry Green (1905), George Peele (1556), Coventry Patmore (1823), R. S. Thomas (1913), Sabine Baring-Gould (1834), and Samuel Daniel (1562). After him are George Farquhar (1677), Nina Bawden (1925), William Wycherley (1640), Brian Moore (1921), Anna Burns (1962), and Ann Oakley (1944).

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