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Boris Ford, ed.
A Guide to English Literature, I: The Age of Chaucer; with an anthology of medieval poems.
Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1954.
[No ISBN].
Paperback, perfect bound.
110x179x23mm.
491pp inc. 10 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English; anthology texts given in Middle English with modernised orthography.
Fair condition: some general wear to the covers, spine stained with a heavy crease; pages very yellowed with age, and a stain to the top corner throughout, extends inside the book, but the text area is not affected; text appears to be free of marking.This item £2.00
291g.
Fourteen essays providing comprehensive coverage of medieval & renaissance literature and its background, together with a generous anthology of glossed texts; the essays are mostly different to those in the 1983 second edition.
Contents: Essays:
Speirs, Survey of medieval verse;
Doyle, English prose in the middle ages;
Doyle, Social context of medieval English literature;
Speirs, Pardoneres Prologue & Tale;
Holbrook, Nonnes Preestes Tale;
Traversi, Langland's Piers Plowman;
Berry, Gawayne & the Grene Knight;
Hodgart, Medieval lyrics & the ballads;
Speirs, Towneley Shepherds' Plays;
Cruttwell, Dunbar & Henryson;
Cormican, Morality tradition & interludes;
Harding, Poetry of Wyatt;
Traversi, Spenser's Faerie Queene;
Pevsner, English architecture in the late middle ages;
Texts:
Mannyng, excerpts from Handlyng Synne;
Anon., Sir Orfeo;
Anon., Roberd of Cisyle;
Anon., Parlement of Thre Ages;
Anon., Wynnere & Wastoure;
Langland, excerpts from Piers Plowman;
Anon., Gawayne & the Grene Knight;
Gower, excerpt from Confessio Amantis;
Anon., 1st Shepherds' Play from Towneley Cycle;
Anon., Crucifixion from York Cycle.
Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: 10 monochrome line drawings
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: glosses at page foot in the text section
Bibliography: 16pp, annotated
Index: yes
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