The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man, Vol. 1The only pretty page in the volume is that on the renewing of Nature by Spring, p. 92. Of the literary quality of the rest of the verse, the less that's said, the better; but of course the text is of worth for its words, metre, and grammar, and its gauge of religious folks' minds in the 14th and 15th centuries.2 Lydgate (at the bidding of the 7th Lord Salisbury 3) englisht the second and expanded version of deguileville's poem, made a.d. 1335, the first having been written in 1330-1. There is no copy of this second version in the British Museum, ms. Or printed; but Mr. Alfred Huth has kindly let me make extracts from his copy of the Old print, to show how Lydgate treated his original. In the following sample he englishes 148 lines of French in 254 of English, which include his definitions of the three words Original, Posterity, Transgression. For another sample, see p. 201-4, after the third Latin poem.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.