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1 online resource (356 pages) |
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Variorum Collected Studies ; v. 1002 |
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Collected studies
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| Contents |
Chapter I Thinking in poetry: three medieval examples -- chapter II The poet and the book -- chapter III The sinking island and the dying author: R.W. Chambers fifty years on -- chapter IV The languages of medieval England -- chapter V Autobiographical poetry in the Middle Ages: the case of Thomas Hoccleve -- chapter VI Poems without endings -- chapter VII Politeness and privacy: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess -- chapter VIII Vituperations in Chaucer's poetry -- chapter IX Chaucer's Sir Thopas and La Prise de Nuevile -- chapter X Chaucer as petitioner: three poems -- chapter XI The portrayal of Amans in Confessio Amantis -- chapter XII Gower's poetic styles -- chapter XIII The endings of stories in Piers Plowman -- chapter XIV Lady Meed and the power of money -- chapter XV God and the fullness of time in Piers Plowman -- chapter XVI The old and new ploughs in Piers Plowman -- chapter XVII Hoccleve and the 'Court' -- chapter XVIII Hoccleve and the Middle French poets -- chapter XIX An eighteenth-century edition of Hoccleve -- chapter XX Hoccleve's questions: intonation and punctuation -- chapter XXI The fourteenth-century Arthur -- chapter XXII The Avowing of King Arthur -- chapter XXIII The uses of incognito: lpomadon A |
| Summary |
This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but most of them concentrate on particular English poems, such as Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Hoccleve's Series. Although some of the essays take account of the poet's life and times ('Chaucer as Petitioner', 'Hoccleve and the 'Court''), most are mainly concerned with the meaning and structure of the poems. What, for example, does the hero of Ipomadon hope to achieve by fighting, as he always does, incognito? Why do the stories in Piers Plowman all peter out so inconclusively? And how can it be that the narrator in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess so persistently fails to understand what he is told? |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450? -- Criticism and interpretation
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400? -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450? fast |
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400? fast |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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English poetry -- Middle English
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Poètes anglais -- Moyen âge.
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Poésie anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351219334 |
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1351219332 |
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