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Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1973-06-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0141966637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Short narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Author: Daniel Sawyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0192599607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence, from the weights of books in medieval bindings to relationships between rhyme and syntax. It combines literary-critical close readings, detailed case studies of particular surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys drawing on continental European traditions of quantitative codicology to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period. The small-and large-scale formal features of poetry affected reading subtly but extensively, determining how readers might move through books and even shaping physical books themselves. Readers' responses to one formal feature, rhyme, meanwhile, evince a habitual but therefore deep-rooted formalism which can support and enhance close readings today. Reading English Verse in Manuscript sheds fresh light on poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Thomas Hoccleve, but also shows how their works were read in manuscript in the context of a much larger mass of anonymous poems that influenced canonical poems, in a pattern of mutual influence.
Author: James H. Morey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9780252025075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Book and Verse is guide to the variety and extent of biblical literature in England, exclusive of drama and the Wycliffite Bible, that appeared between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries. Entries provide detailed information on how much of what parts of the Bible appear in Middle English and where this biblical material can be found."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Eric Weiskott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1107169658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Author: J. W. Thomas
Publisher: University of North Carolina S
Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781469658490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology contains representative selections from the verse of Minnesingers, nuns, priests, goliards, Spielleute, middle-class singers, and noblemen from the twelfth to the fifteenth century together with historical background, biographical sketches, and comments on individual poems. At the time of its original publication it was the largest such collection in English.
Author: Nicholas Orme
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012-04-06
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0801464633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children’s verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of all ages to experience the medieval world through the eyes of its children. In his delightful treasury of medieval children’s verse, Orme does a masterful job of recovering a lively and largely unknown tradition, preserving the playfulness of the originals while clearly explaining their meaning, significance, or context. Poems written in Latin or French have been translated into English, and Middle English has been modernized. Fleas, Flies, and Friars has five parts. The first two contain short lyrical pieces and fragments, together with excerpts from essays in verse that address childhood or were written for children. The third part presents poems for young people about behavior. The fourth contains three long stories and the fifth brings together verse relating to education and school life.
Author: Celia Sisam
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Assemblage of lyrical works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Langland surveys poetic concerns and artistry from the twelfth to the fifteenth century.
Author: Stephanie Trigg
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in this volume consider a range of poetic texts written in England between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, with the exception of works by Chaucer, and represent some of the exciting new developments in medieval studies over the last twenty years. The collection explores and interrogates the established canon of Middle English poetry and includes several studies of two major poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman, and essays on some less well-known works, including Havelok the Dane, The Owl and the Nightingale and The Flower and the Leaf. In a field that has been dominated by historical scholarship and conservative new criticism, Medieval English Poetry brings together some of the most controversial work currently being done in Middle English studies; this collection reveals the strength and depth of this research in feminist, Marxist, historicist, reader-response and deconstructionist method. It includes contributions from David Aers, Sheila Delany, Anne Middleton, and Lee Patterson. Stephanie Trigg's illuminating introduction examines some of the patterns that have emerged in the criticism of medieval literature this century, and pays particular attention to our constructions and definitions of the 'medieval'. The range of material covered, together with the detailed headnotes to each of the thirteen essays and the guide to further reading, make this book essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of Medieval English Literature.
Author: Reginald Thorne Davies
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780810100756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains over 180 poems, songs, and carols of medieval England in Middle English with extensive linguistic and critical notes.
