Lydgate
Encyclopedia
Lydgate could refer to:
- Lydgate, Greater ManchesterLydgate, Greater ManchesterLydgate is one of the Saddleworth villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England....
, a village in Greater Manchester, England - Lydgate, West Yorkshire, a village in Calderdale, England.
- Dr. Tertius Lydgate, a character in the novel MiddlemarchMiddlemarchMiddlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes...
by George Eliot - John LydgateJohn LydgateJohn Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England.Lydgate is at once a greater and a lesser poet than John Gower. He is a greater poet because of his greater range and force; he has a much more powerful machine at his command. The sheer bulk of Lydgate's poetic output is...
, an English monk and poet