Abstract
It has often been observed about these and similar lines in Lydgate’s corpus how singularly focused they are on Chaucer’s stylistic and rhetorical accomplishments, to the exclusion of all other qualities.2 Thomas Hoccleve’s roughly contemporary eulogies of Chaucer—composed around 1411—are comparatively less hyperbolic in respect to this quality and include, for example, a nod to Chaucer as “heir in philosophie / To Aristotle.”3 Many
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