A companion to medieval poetry / edited by Corinne Saunders.

Contributor Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-

Imprint:Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Descriptionxvii, 683 p. ; 26 cm.

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

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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