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Troy Book
''Troy Book'' is a Middle English poem by John Lydgate relating the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end of the Trojan war. It is in five books, comprising 30,117 lines in ten-syllable couplets. The poem's major source is Guido delle Colonne's ''Historia destructionis Troiae''.〔(Lydgate1998 ), pp. 1, 13.〕〔(Gray 1970 ), p. 323.〕
==Background==
''Troy Book'' was Lydgate's first full-scale work. It was commissioned from Lydgate by the Prince of Wales (later Henry V), who wanted a poem that would show the English language to be as fit for a grand theme as the other major literary languages,Ywriten as wel in oure langage
As in Latyn and in Frensche it is.〔(Prologue, line 114 ).〕 Lydgate tells us that he began writing the poem at four o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, 31 October 1412; he completed it in 1420.
It has been argued that Lydgate intended ''Troy Book'' as an attempt to outdo Chaucer's Trojan romance ''Troilus and Criseyde'', and certainly the frequent recurrence of tributes to Chaucer's excellence as a poet is a notable feature of the poem. The poem emphasizes the disastrous results of political discord and militarism, and also presents the conventional medieval themes of the power of Fortune to influence earthly affairs and the vanity of worldly things.
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