John Lydgate's dance of death and related works Cook, Megan L. (Megan Leigh) 1981- editor. Strakhov, Elizaveta 1984- editor. text bibliography Poetry. miu 2019 monographic eng enm fre print 195 pages ; 26 cm. "This volume brings together new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's fifteenth-century poem, The Dance of Death, with related Middle English verse from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It also includes a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together, these poems showcase the power and versatility of the danse macabre motif, offering a vivid window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In these poems, we see Death itself help readers remember and process the fundamental paradox of death's universality yet irremediable specificity. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death"-- edited by Megan Leigh Cook and Elizaveta Strakhov. Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191). Poems in Middle English, one French poem with an English translation. English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 Death Poetry Death English poetry Middle English 1100-1500 fast PR1203 .J58 2019 821/.2 Dance of death Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Middle English texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.) 9781580443814 9781580443807 158044380X 1580443818 9781580444088 2019034706 pda,print DLC 190808 20250318222706.1 in00004163271 eng