A companion to medieval poetry
By: edited by Corinne Saunders
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 67; Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 67.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 683
ISBN-13: 9781444319101; 9781405197427
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, in literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History and criticism; POETRY; English poetry
Description: A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon period up to the 15 th century.: Organised into three parts to echo the chronological and stylistic divisions between the Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Post-Chaucerian periods, each section is introduced with contextual essays, providing a valuable introduction to the society and culture of the time; Combines a general discussion of genres of medieval poetry, with specific consideration of texts and authors, including Beowulf, Sir Gawain and th.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: World of Anglo-Saxon England / Andy Orchard; title: Old English language and the alliterative tradition / Richard Dance; title: Old English manuscripts and readers / Rohinin Jayatilaka; title: Old English and Latin poetic traditions / Andy Orchard; title: Germanic legend and Old English heroic poetry / Hugh Magennis; title: Old English biblical and devotional poetry / Daniel Anlezark; title: Old English western poetry / David Ashurst; title: Old English epic poetry: Beowulf / Daniel Anlezark; title: World of medieval England: from the Norman conquest to the fourteenth century / Conor McCarthy; title: Middle English language and poetry / Simon Horobin; title: Middle English manuscripts and readers / Ralph Hanna; title: Legendary history and chronicle: Lazamons's "Brut" and the chronicle tradition / Lucy Perry; title: Medieval debate-poetry and "The Owl and the Nightingale" / Neil Cartlidge; title: Lyrics, sacred and secular / David Fuller; title: Macaronic poetry / Elizabeth Archibald; title: Popular romance / Nancy Mason Bradbury; title: Arthurian and courtly romance / Rosalind Field; title: Alliterative poetry: religion and morality / John Sacttergood; title: Alliterative poetry and politics / John Scattergood; title: Poet of pearl, cleanness and patience / A.V.C. Schmidt; title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Tony Davenport; title: Langland's "Piers Plowman" / Lawrence Warner; title: Chaucer's "Troilus" and "Criseyde" / Alcuin Blamires; title: Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" / Corinne Saunders; title: Poetry of John Gower / R.F. Yeager; title: England in the long fifteenth century / Matthew Woodcock; title: Poetic language in the fifteenth century / A.S.G. Edwards; title: Manuscript and print: books, readers and writers / Julia Boffey; title: Hoccleve and Lydgate / Daniel Wakelin; title: Women and writing / C. Annette Grisé; title: Medieval Scottish poetry / Douglas Gray; title: Courtiers and courtly poetry / Barry Windeatt; title: Drama: sacred and secular / Pamela King.