LAYAMON

lāˈəmən, –mŏn, līˈ–, fl. c.1200, first prominent Middle English poet. He described himself as a humble priest attached to the church at Ernley (Arley Regis) near Radstone. His Brut is a chronicle in 32,341 short lines on the history of Britain, from the fall of Troy to the arrival of Brutus in Britain and continuing through the death of Cadwaladr. Layamon freely adapted the Brut of Wace and added material from other sources. His Anglo-Saxon narrative meter foreshadows the Middle English metrical system. This chronicle, important in the development of the Arthurian legend, gives one of the finest renderings of King Arthur as a national hero. It also contains the first mention of Lear and Cymbeline.

See his Brut, ed. by G. L. Brook and R. F. Leslie (1963).

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Arthurian Chronicles
Book by Wace, Layamon; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1912
Subjects: Arthur--King--Romances
...were his by birth and temperament. II. LAYAMON To Wace we owe still another debt, for...thirteenth century, after the year 1204, by Layamon, an English priest of the country parish...was a priest in the land, who was named Layamon; he was son of Leovenath may the Lord...
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Cyclopedia of World Authors
Book by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler; Harper & Row, 1958
Subjects: Literature--Bio-Bibliography
LAYAMON Born : Unknown Died : Unknown Date : Twelfth...VERSE CHRONICLE: Brut , c. 1205 Brutus . Layamon properly La amon; frequently modernized...Peters pence. All that is known about Layamon is drawn from autobiographical asides in...
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Chief Middle English Poets
Book by Jessie L. Weston; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914
Subjects: Fiction
CHIEF MIDDLE ENGLISH POETS LAYAMON INTRODUCTION THERE was a priest of yore, Layamon, the name he bore; The son of Leuca he-- God...with his wife, In the ark, they kept in life. Layamon, as I understand, He journeyed far thro the land...
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Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics
Book by A. C. Spearing; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: English Poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism, Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500, Narrative Poetry, English (Middle)--History And Criticism, Subjectivity In Literature
...prologue has a writer but no single speaker. Layamon is he throughout, as if being observed from outside...Drihten (2, 25). At line 29-`Nu biddeth Layamon alcne aethele mon (Now Layamon prays every noble man)-with the proximal deictic...
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A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature
Book by Laura Cooner Lambdin, Robert Thomas Lambdin; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: English Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc, English Literature--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...important verse chronicle in Middle English is Layamon s Lawman s Brut c. 1205 , a pseudohistorical...translation of Brut , Bzdyl suggests that Layamon s chronicle is a hodgepodge of everything Layamon happened to know about early British history...
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Layamon and the Fortunes of Yogh
Journal article by John Frankis; Medium Aevum, Vol. 73, 2004
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English poetry--Research
Layamon and the Fortunes of Yogh. by John Frankis...character yogh, but also because the form Layamon was apparently better known than other...it persisted long afterward. Although Layamon has now largely been abandoned in print...
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The Problem of Ferdowsi's Sources
Journal article by Dick Davis; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996
Subjects: Iran--Literature, Persian literature--Sources
...comprehensive statement as to his sources: "Layamon began to journey wide over this...named Wace, who could well write . . . Layamon laid before him . . . these books, and...one narrative, and both Ferdowsi and Layamon insist on the added authority of unfamiliar...
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The Demonic Hegemonic: Exploitative Voices in Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak
Journal article by Faye Kuzma; Critique, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...anything but disinterested. By prying, Dr. Layamon exploits Benns vulnerability as an older...others. That becomes evident as Dr. Layamon -- the novels most obvious representative...realist viewpoint that bonds all men, Layamon acts out his monstrous disregard for his...
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The English Destiny of Tennyson's Camelot
Journal article by Aaron Yale Heisler; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 88, 2009
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Criticism and interpretation, The Coming of Arthur (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...in pronunciation since centuries before Layamon. The only word for which this is not...pregnant. Tennyson is undoubtedly following Layamon here; the unannounced intrusion of lines...course, in an important sense, both Layamon and Tennyson are "mistaken" in resorting...
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From Poem to Cartoon: Comic Irony in Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak
Journal article by Elaine B. Safer; Critique, Vol. 34, 1993
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...harshly and crudely. The coarse Dr. Layamon also is a monster, one who enjoys eating...what would be fitting for a member of the Layamon household: "Tell him youre having a...Califonia" (348). In the materialistic Layamon family, father and daughter -- monomaniacally...
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Layamon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAYAMON la m n, mon, li , fl. c.1200, first prominent Middle English poet...arrival of Brutus in Britain and continuing through the death of Cadwaladr. Layamon freely adapted the Brut of Wace and added material from other sources...
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Middle English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Charlemagne, the legends of ancient Greece and Rome, and the British legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Layamon s Brut , a late 13th-century metrical romance (a translation from the French), marks the first appearance of Arthurian...
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Arthurian Legend
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Wace s Roman de Brut (c.1155), which infused the legend with the spirit of chivalric romance. The Brut (c.1200) of Layamon , modeled on Waces work, gives one of the best pictures of Arthur as a national hero. Chretien de Troyes , a 12th-century...
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and imaginatively wove the whole into a fictional narrative in the form of a history. His work had great influence on Wace , Layamon , and many chroniclers of the Middle Ages. Another work attributed to him, the Vita Merlini (1148), also influenced later...
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Wace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Historia of Geoffrey of Monmouth . Waces account is much more personal, vigorous, and dramatic than Geoffreys. The Brut of Layamon is an English adaptation of Waces chronicle; both were important in the development of the Arthurian legend . Waces Roman...
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