Author: Dove, Mary
Title: The Perfect Age of Man's Life
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1986). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiii, 175 pp. Textual illustrations. A tear to dustwrapper, slight page-edge bump, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Middle Age of Man's Life: In the Middle of the Way; Numbering Ages & Naming the Middle Age; The Ages of Woman's Life; ' Maturity, Full of Ripenesse'; 'Secrete dimunition'; The Perfect Age of Man's Life: The Perfect Age & the Ages of the Soul; The Perfect Age & the Perfect Man; The Perfect Age & the Ages of the World; The Perfect Age & the Image of the Wheel; The Perfect Age & the De Lisle Psalter; The Perfect Age in Ricardian Poetry: 'Myddel age' in 'Piers Plowman'; 'Hy tyme'in 'Piers Plowman'; 'Myhty youthe' in 'Confessio Amantis'; 'Hyghe eldee' in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'; The 'ryght yong' man & Lady Perfect Age in the 'Book of the Duchess'.

Keywords: Medieval English Poetry, Literary History, Ages of Man, Middle Age, Aging, Philosophy, Literature, Perfection,