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.[1][2][3]
- ^ Lydgate1998, pp. 1, 13.
- ^ Gray 1970, p. 323.
- ^ Harvey, Paul, ed. (1946). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 802. Retrieved 6 August 2012.