mock-ups in the comments are encouraged.

[angevin2]

This is entirely lareinenoire's fault.

Poll Fifteenth-Century Poetry and its Discontents

Comments

[ext_104773]

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]

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

(Um, I mean, sorry.)

[ext_104773]

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]

...at least it's not boring?

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

[angevin2]

BLAME lareinenoire

SHE'S THE ONE WHO WROTE A FIC IN WHICH TWO OF HENRY IV'S SONS RECALL HOW THEY LEARNED ABOUT SEX

[tekalynn]

Where's Charles d'Orléans when you need him?

[angevin2]

Um, France? ;)