Author: John Anthony BurrowPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140159066
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Ricardian Poetry
Author: John Anthony BurrowPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140159066
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Ricardian Poetry
Author: John Anthony BurrowPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710070319
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
REAL Volume 7 (1991)
Author: GrabesPublisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823341611
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Essays on Ricardian Literature in Honour of J.A. Burrow
Author: Alastair J. MinnisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection develops issues and themes first broached in John Burrow's groundbreaking book Ricardian Poetry and incorporates a bibliography of his published writings, which have revolutionized critical appreciation of medieval literature. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars, explore such areas as the status of Anglo-Latin and the influence of French culture on the Ricardian court, offer radical re-readings of some more familiar works, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and demonstrate how closely the literature of the period is bound up with political and social conditions.
The Gawain-poet
Author: John Anthony BurrowPublisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746308787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive account of what is known about the four poems commonly ascribed to the Gawain poet.
The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature
Author: Penn R. SzittyaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400854164
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This book is a history of a medieval literary tradition that grew out of opposition to the mendicant fraternal orders. Penn R. Szittya argues that the widespread attacks on the friars in late medieval poetry, especially in Ricardian England, drew on an established tradition that originated in the polemical theology, eschatology, and Biblical exegesis of the friars' ecclesiastical enemies--secular clergy, theologians, polemicists, archbishops, canon lawyers, monks, and rival orders. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Oxford History of Poetry in English
Author: Helen CooperPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192886738
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume occupies both a foundational and a revolutionary place. Its opening date--1100--marks the re-emergence of a vernacular poetic record in English after the political and cultural disruption of the Norman Conquest. By its end date--1400--English poetry had become an established, if still evolving, literary tradition. The period between these dates sees major innovations and developments in language, topics, poetic forms, and means of expression. Middle English poetry reflects the influence of multiple contexts--history, social institutions, manuscript production, old and new models of versification, medieval poetic theory, and the other literary languages of England. It thus emphasizes the aesthetic, imaginative treatment of new and received materials by medieval writers and the formal craft required for their verse. Individual chapters treat the representation of national history and mythology, contemporary issues, and the shared doctrine and learning provided by sacred and secular sources, including the Bible. Throughout the period, lyric and romance figure prominently as genres and poetic modes, while some works hover enticingly on the boundary of genre and discursive forms. The volume ends with chapters on the major writers of the late fourteenth-century (Langland, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Gower) and with a look forward to the reception of something like a national literary tradition in fifteenth-century literary culture.
Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry
Author: A. C. SpearingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521315333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This is a critical book to study in depth the transition from the 'medieval' to the 'Renaissance' periods in English literature. What exactly, in a literary context, do those terms designate? Mr Spearing argues that, far from being fixed determinants, they demand careful critical reappraisal. He rewrites the literary history of the period from Chaucer to the early Spenser in a way that puts emphasis on the importance of Chaucer's influence on a tradition which in many important respects began with him. Many literary and cultural qualities, normally considered 'Renaissance', can be seen to have their origins, so far as the English tradition is concerned, in Chaucer's contacts with Italian culture. This book shows how Chaucer can be regarded as a Renaissance poet whose work was medievalised by his admiring successors. Traditions other than the Chaucerian are examined in this light, and the author engages with the larger problems of literary history through the detailed analysis of specimen texts.
The Politics of Pearl
Author: John M. BowersPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915991
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Close analysis of the poem reveals extensive allusion to contemporary social, religious and political events.
John Gower's Poetic
Author: Robert F. YeagerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859912808
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
John Gower's Poetic is a new study of Gower's complete poetry. Considered are Vox Clamantis, Mirour de l'Omme, Traitié pour les Amantz marietz, Cinkante Balades, Confessio Amantis, and `To King Henry IV, In Praise of Peace'. In fiveintegrative chapters, Yeger demonstrates that Gower - far from being the lugubrious moralist and journeyman craftsman as which he is often portrayed -was in fact a writer of broad learning and ambition, whose work was consistently shaped bya poetic theory of profound originality. To demonstrate this, John Gower's Poetic re-examines Gower's work from the basic levels of orthography, grammar, vocabulary, and metrics, to his enduring macrocosmic themes; in the process, Yeager shows that Gower saw himself as an `auctor', or `poete', in the manner of Dante, Machaut, Froissart, and Deschamps. The book concludes with an extensive, fresh reading of Gower's greatest poem, the Confessio Amantis. Professor R. F. Yeager teaches in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, University of West Florida, Pensacola.