Chaucer to Spenser
Subtitle: an anthology of writings in English, 1375-1575
By: edited by Derek Pearsall.
Contributors: Pearsall, Derek Albert.
Series: Blackwell anthologies
Publisher: Blackwell; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 686
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1066-1485 -- Sources.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 16th century -- Sources.
Description: "Derek Pearsall's major new anthology of English writing provides substantial representation of the work of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, Malory, Henryson, Skelton, More, Wyatt and Spenser and many other major writers of the period 1375-1575, not in isolation but in the full context of non-dramatic writing during these two centuries, so that the book can act as the student medieval 'reader' ... The anthology as a whole is organized to build, through its texts and apparatus, a solid first-hand understanding of two hundred years of English literary culture ..." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Companion vol.: Chaucer to Spenser--a critical reader.