Title: The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser
Description: This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser.
Subjects: Gawain and the Grene Knight, History and criticism, English poetry, Langland, william, 1330?-1400?, Spenser, edmund, 1552?-1599, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf, Middle English
People: Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), William Langland (1330?-1400?), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, Middle English, 1100-1500