English poetry before Chaucer
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English poetry before Chaucer
（Exeter medieval English texts and studies）
University of Exeter Press, 2002
Rev. and updated ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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First published as "English literature before Chaucer" by Longman in 1987
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Anxiety and Assertion
2. Until the Dragon Comes Widsith, Deor, Waldere, The Fight at Finnsburh and Beowulf
3. Verbum de Verbo Caedmon's Creation-Hymn, Genesis A, Exodus and The Dream of the Rood
4. The Ruin of Time The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Ruin and The Phoenix, 112
5. A Certain Heroism Guthlac A, Judith, The Battle of Maldon and Layamon's Brut
6. Things That Falleth to Ribaudrie Havelok, Sir Tristrem, Floris and Blauncheflur and Madam Sirith and the Weeping Bitch
7. 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 Nightingale
Epilogue: The Equal Hour
Appendix: Early English Prosody
Chronology
Further Reading
Writers, their Works and Sources
(i) Writers and writings in English
(ii) Writers and writings in languages other than English
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
