Comments | angevin2: mock-ups in the comments are encouraged.

angevin2

mock-ups in the comments are encouraged.

Oct 08, 2008 12:55

This is entirely lareinenoire's fault.

Poll Fifteenth-Century Poetry and its Discontents

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ext_104773 October 8 2008, 22:57:15 UTC

Hoccleve and Gower both have moments of amusement; Lydgate not so much.

Except the inadvertent one you get when you call "Tydeus" in Siege of Thebes "Tedious" in your head.

Also, damn you for putting this up when I'm actually TRYING TO WRITE ON LYDGATE. It doesn't help to have this mental image now.

angevin2 October 8 2008, 22:59:25 UTC

You're trying to write on Lydgate? Isn't he kind of crumbly?

(Um, I mean, sorry.)

ext_104773 October 8 2008, 23:02:35 UTC

Well, I'm trying to write about someone inhabiting Lydgate. Which is worse, really, but it involves writing god-awful long footnotes about what everyone is saying about Lydgate and it's BORING. Though now I'm imagining him having sex. Thanks.

angevin2 October 8 2008, 23:07:12 UTC

...at least it's not boring?

(I mean, the sex is probably pretty boring, what with Lydgate being Lydgate and all...)

ext_104773 October 8 2008, 23:13:50 UTC

Now I'm thinking about WHAT KIND OF SEX LYDGATE HAD.

It was bad enough when it was just sex, but now we're talking specifics and it's icky. (And he was a monk. You know what monks are like).

angevin2 October 9 2008, 02:02:56 UTC

And if the Letter to Gloucester is any indication, whatever he was doing, he picked up something nasty from doing it.

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