'the right balance of translations and glosses further combine to achieve the editors' overall aim - "to provide students with a first experience of the vast riches of medieval literature in English"' Michael J. Huxtable, Medium Aevum, LXX 11

• Editors' Preface: Introduction: Medieval English Literature: OLD ENGLISH POETRY Caedmon's Hymn Beowulf Judith from The Death of Holofernes Elegies The Wanderer The Wife's Complaint The Husband's Message Wulf and Eadwacer Engimas and Wisdom The Queen and the Frisian Wife Riddles Genesis B from The Temptation of Eve The Dream of the Rood The Battle of Maldon GEOFFREY CHAUCER, c. 1343-1400 The Canterbury Tales General Prologue The Miller's Prologue and Tale The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale Two Other Fox Stories from The Bestiary from Robert Henryson, Fables The Fox and the Wolf The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale William Dunbar from The Two Married Women and the Widow The Franklin's Prologue and Tale Gentilesse The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale from The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon Troilus and Criseyde Robert Henryson The Complaint of Cresseid Chaucer's Words unto Adam, His Own Scribe Chaucer's Retractions ROMANCE Sir Orfeo Thomas the Rhymer The Land of Cokaygne Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas Malory from Morte Darthur [The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone] [The Fair Maid of Astolat] [The Death of Arthur] THE VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN from the Prologue from Passus I from Passus XVIII THEATER The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play The Chester Play of Noah Everyman from The Castle of Perseverance: The Seven Deadly Sins WOMEN'S WRITING AND WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses) Holy Maidenhood (A Letter on Virginity) Saint Scholastica The Book of Margery Kempe What So Men Sayn MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS Spring Now Springs the Spray Sumer is Ycomen In The Thrush and the Nightingale Alison Separated Lovers Western Wind He Is Far I Have a Young Sister The Maid of the Moor The Agincourt Carol Bring Us In Good Ale I Have Set My Heart So High All Too Late A Woman Sat Weeping Divine Love I Sing of a Maiden Of One That Is So Fair and Bright Adam Lay Ybounden Corpus Christi Carol BALLADS The Cherry-Tree Carol The Two Magicians The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover] The Wife of Usher's Well The Unquiet Grave Lord Randel The Three Ravens The Birth of Robin Hood Sir Patrick Spence WILLIAM DUNBAR, c. 1460-c. 1514 Lament for the Makers WILLIAM CAXTON, 1415/24-1492 The Proem to The Canterbury Tales from the Preface to The Aeneid Glossary: Suggestions for Further Reading: Author and Title Index: First-Line Index:

'the right balance of translations and glosses further combine to achieve the editors' overall aim - "to provide students with a first experience of the vast riches of medieval literature in English"' Michael J. Huxtable, Medium Aevum, LXX 11

• Editors' Preface: Introduction: Medieval English Literature: OLD ENGLISH POETRY Caedmon's Hymn Beowulf Judith from The Death of Holofernes Elegies The Wanderer The Wife's Complaint The Husband's Message Wulf and Eadwacer Engimas and Wisdom The Queen and the Frisian Wife Riddles Genesis B from The Temptation of Eve The Dream of the Rood The Battle of Maldon GEOFFREY CHAUCER, c. 1343-1400 The Canterbury Tales General Prologue The Miller's Prologue and Tale The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale Two Other Fox Stories from The Bestiary from Robert Henryson, Fables The Fox and the Wolf The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale William Dunbar from The Two Married Women and the Widow The Franklin's Prologue and Tale Gentilesse The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale from The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon Troilus and Criseyde Robert Henryson The Complaint of Cresseid Chaucer's Words unto Adam, His Own Scribe Chaucer's Retractions ROMANCE Sir Orfeo Thomas the Rhymer The Land of Cokaygne Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas Malory from Morte Darthur [The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone] [The Fair Maid of Astolat] [The Death of Arthur] THE VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN from the Prologue from Passus I from Passus XVIII THEATER The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play The Chester Play of Noah Everyman from The Castle of Perseverance: The Seven Deadly Sins WOMEN'S WRITING AND WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses) Holy Maidenhood (A Letter on Virginity) Saint Scholastica The Book of Margery Kempe What So Men Sayn MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS Spring Now Springs the Spray Sumer is Ycomen In The Thrush and the Nightingale Alison Separated Lovers Western Wind He Is Far I Have a Young Sister The Maid of the Moor The Agincourt Carol Bring Us In Good Ale I Have Set My Heart So High All Too Late A Woman Sat Weeping Divine Love I Sing of a Maiden Of One That Is So Fair and Bright Adam Lay Ybounden Corpus Christi Carol BALLADS The Cherry-Tree Carol The Two Magicians The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover] The Wife of Usher's Well The Unquiet Grave Lord Randel The Three Ravens The Birth of Robin Hood Sir Patrick Spence WILLIAM DUNBAR, c. 1460-c. 1514 Lament for the Makers WILLIAM CAXTON, 1415/24-1492 The Proem to The Canterbury Tales from the Preface to The Aeneid Glossary: Suggestions for Further Reading: Author and Title Index: First-Line Index:

'the right balance of translations and glosses further combine to achieve the editors' overall aim - "to provide students with a first experience of the vast riches of medieval literature in English"' Michael J. Huxtable, Medium Aevum, LXX 11

• Editors' Preface: Introduction: Medieval English Literature: OLD ENGLISH POETRY Caedmon's Hymn Beowulf Judith from The Death of Holofernes Elegies The Wanderer The Wife's Complaint The Husband's Message Wulf and Eadwacer Engimas and Wisdom The Queen and the Frisian Wife Riddles Genesis B from The Temptation of Eve The Dream of the Rood The Battle of Maldon GEOFFREY CHAUCER, c. 1343-1400 The Canterbury Tales General Prologue The Miller's Prologue and Tale The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale Two Other Fox Stories from The Bestiary from Robert Henryson, Fables The Fox and the Wolf The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale William Dunbar from The Two Married Women and the Widow The Franklin's Prologue and Tale Gentilesse The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale from The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon Troilus and Criseyde Robert Henryson The Complaint of Cresseid Chaucer's Words unto Adam, His Own Scribe Chaucer's Retractions ROMANCE Sir Orfeo Thomas the Rhymer The Land of Cokaygne Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Thomas Malory from Morte Darthur [The Birth of Arthur and the Sword in the Stone] [The Fair Maid of Astolat] [The Death of Arthur] THE VISIONS OF PIERS PLOWMAN from the Prologue from Passus I from Passus XVIII THEATER The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play The Chester Play of Noah Everyman from The Castle of Perseverance: The Seven Deadly Sins WOMEN'S WRITING AND WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE Ancrene Wisse (A Guide for Anchoresses) Holy Maidenhood (A Letter on Virginity) Saint Scholastica The Book of Margery Kempe What So Men Sayn MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS Spring Now Springs the Spray Sumer is Ycomen In The Thrush and the Nightingale Alison Separated Lovers Western Wind He Is Far I Have a Young Sister The Maid of the Moor The Agincourt Carol Bring Us In Good Ale I Have Set My Heart So High All Too Late A Woman Sat Weeping Divine Love I Sing of a Maiden Of One That Is So Fair and Bright Adam Lay Ybounden Corpus Christi Carol BALLADS The Cherry-Tree Carol The Two Magicians The Carpenter's Wife [The Demon Lover] The Wife of Usher's Well The Unquiet Grave Lord Randel The Three Ravens The Birth of Robin Hood Sir Patrick Spence WILLIAM DUNBAR, c. 1460-c. 1514 Lament for the Makers WILLIAM CAXTON, 1415/24-1492 The Proem to The Canterbury Tales from the Preface to The Aeneid Glossary: Suggestions for Further Reading: Author and Title Index: First-Line Index: