This essay aims to determine the validity of the genre in Reson and
Sensuallyte as a manifestation of a principle which governs the poem,
and as an act of the interpretation. In this article we discuss briefly
Lydgate’s Reson and Sensuallyte as a consolatio of the fifteenth century.
The poem represents, in fact, the decay of this genre, but in a sense
we recognize the structure of the Consolatio Philosophiae, and the
“consolatio” elements as the central action of the poem.
