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Boris Ford, ed.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: 1. Medieval Literature: Part One, Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition; Part Two, The European Inheritance.
2 vols., Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982-3 (some essays previously issued in the earlier 1954 edition).
ISBN 0140222642 (Part 1); 0140222723 (Part 2).
Paperback, perfect bound.
Printed by Cox & Wyman, Reading.
110x181x53mm.
647pp inc. 9 monochrome drawings (part 1); 623pp (part 2).
English; the anthology in part 1 consists of Middle English texts with lightly modernised orthography, and modern English glosses at the foot of each page; the anthology in part 2 gives modern English translations, with short representative passages in the original languages.
Fair to good condition: a little wear and creasing to the spines and covers; pages rather yellowed, but appear to be free of marking.This item £9.00 for two volumes
624g.
Contents (Part One):
Brewer, Social context of medieval English literature;
Speirs, Survey of medieval verse & drama;
Persall, Postscript [to Speirs] - changing perspectives;
Dolan & Scattergood, Middle English prose;
Brewer, Language of English medieval literature;
Mann, Chaucerian themes & style in the Franklin's Tale;
Speirs, Pardoner's Prologue & Tale;
Holbrook, Nun's Priest's Tale;
Bishop, Troilus & Criseyde and the Knight's Tale;
Traversi, Langland's Piers Plowman;
Burrow, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight;
Robinson, Pearl - poetry & suffering;
Spearing, Dream-poems;
Stevens, Medieval lyrics & music;
Axton, Miracle plays of Noah;
Pearsall, Visual world of the Middle Ages;
Cruttwell, Dunbar & Henryson;
Mann, Malory - knightly combat in Le Morte D'Arthur;
Axton, The morality tradition;
Harding, Poetry of Wyatt;
Baker-Smith, Thomas More & the court of Henry VIII;
Anthology:
3 Harley lyrics;
Winner & Waster;
The Lord of Love;
Langland, Harrowing of Hell (from Piers Plowman);
Chestre, Sir Launfal;
Pearl;
Gower, Tereus & Procne (from Confessio Amantis);
The Blacksmiths;
Hoccleve, 3 roundels;
Towneley 2nd Shepherds' Play;
York Crucifixion Play;
9 SLoane lyrics; Henryson, Lion & the Mouse (from Moral Fables).
Contents (Part Two):
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 romances - Yvain;
Michael, Poem of My Cid;
Axton, Church drama & popular culture;
Glier, Troubadours & minnesang;
Johnson, Wolfram - Parzival;
Johnson, Gottfried - Tristan;
Topsfield, Romance of the Rose;
Simpson, The Icelandic Njal's Saga;
Scott, Dante - Divine Comedy;
Smith, Ruiz - Book of Good Love;
Kirkpatrick, Boccaccio - Decameron;
Sims-Williams, Dafydd ap Gwilim & Celtic literature;
McNair, Petrarch & the poetry of love;
Burke, Rabelais - Gargantua & Pantagruel;
Anthology (short selections in modern English translation, representing the works discussed in the chapters above; short representative passages from the origninal languages are also given).
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