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Boris Ford, ed.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, 1: Medieval Literature, part two: The European Inheritance.
London: Penguin, reprint of 1990 reissue (original edition was 1984).
ISBN 0140138072;
ISBN-13: 9780140138078.
Paperback, perfect bound.
127x196x30mm.
623pp.
English.
Fair condition: some creasing to the spine and covers; paper starting to yellow slightly; first folio (the half-title/author biography) is becoming detached, though binding appears otherwise sound.This item £8.00
409g.
Contents:
Holt, Medieval Europe;
Brewer, Medieval European literature;
Shepherd, Beowulf - an epic fairy-tale;
Browning, Byzantine literature;
Axton, Song of Roland;
Hunt, Chrétien de troyes' Arthurian romance, Yvain;
Michael, Poem of My Cid;
Axton, Church drama & popular drama;
Glier, Troubadours & minnesang;
Johnson, Wolfram von Eschenbach - Parzival;
Johnson, Gottfried von Strassburg - Tristan;
Topsfield, Roman de la Rose;
Simpson, Njal's Saga;
Scott, Dante - the Divine Comedy;
Smith, Ruiz - Book of Good Love;
Kirkpatrick, Boccaccio - Decameron;
Sim-Williams, Dafydd ap Gwilym & Celtic literature;
McNair, Petrarch & the poetry of love;
Burke, Rabelais - Gargantua & Pantagruel;
Anthology of medieval literature in the vernacular (gives illustrative selections translated into English for all of the works discussed above).
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