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A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15 th century.: Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Post-Chaucerian periods, each section is introduced with contextual essays, providing a valuable introduction to the society and culture of the time; Combines a general discussion of genres of medieval poetry, with specific consideration of texts and authors, including Beowulf, Sir Gawain and th.

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Wiley-Blackwell
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English
Pages
683

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Civilization, Medieval, in literature, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, History and criticism, POETRY, English poetry

Times

Middle English, 1100-1500

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Table of Contents

World of Anglo-Saxon England / Andy Orchard
Old English language and the alliterative tradition / Richard Dance
Old English manuscripts and readers / Rohinin Jayatilaka
Old English and Latin poetic traditions / Andy Orchard
Germanic legend and Old English heroic poetry / Hugh Magennis
Old English biblical and devotional poetry / Daniel Anlezark
Old English western poetry / David Ashurst
Old English epic poetry: Beowulf / Daniel Anlezark
World of medieval England: from the Norman conquest to the fourteenth century / Conor McCarthy
Middle English language and poetry / Simon Horobin
Middle English manuscripts and readers / Ralph Hanna
Legendary history and chronicle: Lazamons's "Brut" and the chronicle tradition / Lucy Perry
Medieval debate-poetry and "The Owl and the Nightingale" / Neil Cartlidge
Lyrics, sacred and secular / David Fuller
Macaronic poetry / Elizabeth Archibald
Popular romance / Nancy Mason Bradbury
Arthurian and courtly romance / Rosalind Field
Alliterative poetry: religion and morality / John Sacttergood
Alliterative poetry and politics / John Scattergood
Poet of pearl, cleanness and patience / A.V.C. Schmidt
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Tony Davenport
Langland's "Piers Plowman" / Lawrence Warner
Chaucer's "Troilus" and "Criseyde" / Alcuin Blamires
Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" / Corinne Saunders
Poetry of John Gower / R.F. Yeager
England in the long fifteenth century / Matthew Woodcock
Poetic language in the fifteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards
Manuscript and print: books, readers and writers / Julia Boffey
Hoccleve and Lydgate / Daniel Wakelin
Women and writing / C. Annette Grisé
Medieval Scottish poetry / Douglas Gray
Courtiers and courtly poetry / Barry Windeatt
Drama: sacred and secular / Pamela King.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chichester, U.K, Malden, MA
Series
Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 67, Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 67.

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821/.109
Library of Congress
PR313 .C65 2010eb, PR313.C65 2010

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[electronic resource] /
Pagination
1 online resource (xvii, 683 p.)
Number of pages
683

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OL27025256M
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ISBN 10
1444319108, 1405197420
ISBN 13
9781444319101, 9781405197427
OCLC/WorldCat
605037873

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