Author: Eleanor Prescott HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey
Author: Eleanor Prescott HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey
Author: Eleanor Prescott HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey
Author: Eleanor Prescott HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey
Author: Eleanor P. HammondPublisher:
ISBN: 9780374934392
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Old English and Middle English Poetry
Author: Derek PearsallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042957603X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the functions that it was assigned are historically integral to an informed understanding of the nature of poetry. The book aims to relate poems to the intellectual and formal traditions by which they are shaped and given their being. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying or working in the fields of literature and history alike.
Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse
Author: Alan T. GaylordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134826427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody. In his seminal essay, Scanning the Prosodists, Alan Gaylord (the editor of this volume) had asked: To show how Chaucer moves, and in moving, moves us: is that not what the study of his prosody should do? Should it not identify a pattern of sounds in motion, a regular and expressive succession which is part of the order of verse and a major component of its effectiveness? In the two decades that followed that essay, a number of distinguished scholars provided a variety of answers for such questions, arising from the authors' work as metrical theorists, or editors of medieval verse, or literary historians, or critics -- but in every case, such work connected to the initiatives and discoveries of the classroom. The best written and most useful of those essays, by recognized authorities in their fields, have been included in this volume. The volume will be of use to the advanced student of Chaucer and medieval poetry, and to the teacher interested in identifying, explaining, and bringing to life the patterns of sound and sense in Chaucer's verse. The extensive master Bibliography for the whole volume comprises a library of references which will have been reviewed and discussed in the essays.
English Verse
Author: Marina TarlinskajaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112419421
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Author: George WatsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
English verse between Chaucer and Surrey
Author: Eleanor P. HammondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
Written Work
Author: Steven JusticePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812292944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Critics of Piers Plowman have often behaved as if the great fourteenth-century English poem were written by committee, Written Work marks a major shift in orientation by focusing on William Langland instead of Piers Plowman. The five original historicist studies collected here are less concerned with searching for Langland's identity in medieval records than with examining the marks, even scars, left on him by the history he touched. Derek Pearsall studies what Langland knew about London—its geography, economics, and social life—and the way his focus on the city shifted in the course of revising the poem. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton examines the conditions for authorship and publishing in late fourteenth-century England and uncovers evidence of Langland's struggles to attract patronage and maintain control over the text and circulation of Piers. Anne Middleton's stunning chapter explores how the long shadow of fourteenth-century labor laws fell across Langland as he reworked his text. Ralph Hanna III examines the conflicting demands of manual and intellectual labor on the poet, while Lawrence M. Clopper uncovers the deep impressions that contemporary controversies about Franciscan poverty made on Langland and his life-work. Each of the chapters unfolds from Langland's apologia, the extraordinary autobiographical passage unique to the last of the three distinct versions of Piers Plowman that have come down to us.