English Poetry Before Chaucer

AvMichael Swanton

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-07-02
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9780859896337

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Michael Swanton is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter

Recensioner i media

A particular strength of Swanton’s book is that he has trained as a historian and archaeologist and brings this expertise to bear on his literary pursuits. Consequently, his writings are characterised by solid historical commentary, wtinessed in this volume by his annotations to each chapter, his chronological charts and summaries, and the section “Writers, their works and the sources”.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface1. Introduction: Anxiety and Assertion2. Until the Dragon Comes Widsith, Deor, Waldere, The Fight at Finnsburh and Beowulf3. Verbum de Verbo Caedmon's Creation-Hymn, Genesis A, Exodus and The Dream of the Rood4. The Ruin of Time The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Ruin and The Phoenix, 1125. A Certain Heroism Guthlac A, Judith, The Battle of Maldon and Layamon's Brut6. Things That Falleth to Ribaudrie Havelok, Sir Tristrem, Floris and Blauncheflur and Madam Sirith and the Weeping Bitch7. Song and Singer Foweles in pe Frith, Lenten is Come with Love to Town, The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale, Thomas of Hales' Love-Song, Gabriel's Greeting to the Virgin Mary, Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount, The Follies of Fashion, A Song of Lewes, The Thrush and the Nightingale and The Owl and the NightingaleEpilogue: The Equal HourAppendix: Early English ProsodyChronologyFurther ReadingWriters, their Works and Sources(i) Writers and writings in English(ii) Writers and writings in languages other than EnglishIndex