A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

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• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 703
• Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 the Green Knight , Chaucer, Gower and Langland
• Features original essays by eminent scholars, including Andy Orchard, Carl Schmidt, Douglas Gray, and Barry Windeatt,  who present a range of theoretical, historical, and cultural approaches to reading medieval poetry, as well as offering close analysis of individual texts and traditions

✦ Table of Contents

A Companion to Medieval Poetry......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 21
Part I Old English Poetry......Page 31
Contexts......Page 33
1 The World of Anglo-Saxon England......Page 35
2 The Old English Language and the Alliterative Tradition......Page 54
3 Old English Manuscripts and Readers......Page 71
4 Old English and Latin Poetic Traditions......Page 85
Genres and Modes......Page 103
5 Germanic Legend and Old English Heroic Poetry......Page 105
6 Old English Biblical and Devotional Poetry......Page 121
7 Old English Wisdom Poetry......Page 145
8 Old English Epic Poetry: Beowulf......Page 161
Part II Middle English Poetry......Page 181
Contexts......Page 183
9 The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century......Page 185
10 Middle English Language and Poetry......Page 201
11 Middle English Manuscripts and Readers......Page 216
Genres and Modes......Page 237
12 Legendary History and Chronicle: Lazamon's Brut and the Chronicle Tradition......Page 239
13 Medieval Debate-Poetry and The Owl and the Nightingale......Page 257
14 Lyrics, Sacred and Secular......Page 278
15 Macaronic Poetry......Page 297
16 Popular Romance......Page 309
17 Arthurian and Courtly Romance......Page 328
18 Alliterative Poetry: Religion and Morality......Page 349
19 Alliterative Poetry and Politics......Page 369
Poets and Poems......Page 387
20 The Poet of Pearl, Cleanness and Patience......Page 389
21 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight......Page 405
22 William Langland: Piers Plowman......Page 421
23 Chaucer's Love Visions......Page 434
24 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde......Page 455
25 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales......Page 472
26 The Poetry of John Gower......Page 496
Part III Post-Chaucerian and Fifteenth-Century Poetry......Page 517
Contexts......Page 519
27 England in the Long Fifteenth Century......Page 521
28 Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century......Page 540
29 Manuscript and Print: Books, Readers and Writers......Page 558
Poets and Poems......Page 575
30 Hoccleve and Lydgate......Page 577
31 Women and Writing......Page 595
32 Medieval Scottish Poetry......Page 612
33 Courtiers and Courtly Poetry......Page 628
34 Drama: Sacred and Secular......Page 646
Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English Poetry......Page 667
Index......Page 681

✦ Subjects

Литературоведение;Изучение зарубежной литературы;Литература Англии;История английской литературы;