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Michael Swanton.
English Poetry before Chaucer.
Exeter U.P., 2002 (previous edition published Longman, 1987, under the title English Literature before Chaucer).
Exeter Medieval English Texts & Studies series.
ISBN 0859896331;
ISBN-13: 9780859896337.
Paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK: Antony Rowe, Chippenham.
155x232x25mm.
ix,379pp.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £8.00
[Publisher's price £15.99]
742g.
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.
Contents:
1 Introduction: Anxiety and Assertion
2 Until the Dragon Comes:
Widsith, Deor, Waldere, The Fight at Finnsburh and Beowulf
3 Verbum de Verbo:
Cædmon'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
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 Blancheflour and Madam Sirith and the Weeping Bitch
7 Song and Singer:
I Walk with Sorrow, 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 Nightingale and The Owl and the Nightingale.[BML/SP2]
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