A Companion to Medieval PoetryISBN: 978-1-4051-5963-0
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April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction (Corinne Saunders).
Part I Old English Poetry.
Contexts.
1 The World of Anglo-Saxon England (Andy Orchard).
2 The Old English Language and the Alliterative Tradition (Richard Dance).
3 Old English Manuscripts and Readers (Rohini Jayatilaka).
4 Old English and Latin Poetic Traditions (Andy Orchard).
Genres and Modes.
5 Germanic Legend and Old English Heroic Poetry (Hugh Magennis).
6 Old English Biblical and Devotional Poetry (Daniel Anlezark).
7 Old English Wisdom Poetry (David Ashurst).
8 Old English Epic Poetry: Beowulf (Daniel Anlezark).
Part II Middle English Poetry.
Contexts.
9 The World of Medieval England: From the Norman Conquest to the Fourteenth Century (Conor McCarthy).
10 Middle English Language and Poetry (Simon Horobin).
11 Middle English Manuscripts and Readers (Ralph Hanna).
Genres and Modes.
12 Legendary History and Chronicle: La3amon’s Brut and the Chronicle Tradition (Lucy Perry).
13 Medieval Debate-Poetry and The Owl and the Nightingale (Neil Cartlidge).
14 Lyrics, Sacred and Secular (David Fuller).
15 Macaronic Poetry (Elizabeth Archibald).
16 Popular Romance (Nancy Mason Bradbury).
17 Arthurian and Courtly Romance (Rosalind Field).
18 Alliterative Poetry: Religion and Morality (John Scattergood).
19 Alliterative Poetry and Politics (John Scattergood).
Poets and Poems.
20 The Poet of Pearl, Cleanness and Patience (A. V. C. Schmidt).
21 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tony Davenport).
22 Langland's Piers Plowman (Lawrence Warner).
23 Chaucer's Love Visions (Helen Phillips).
24 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Alcuin Blamires).
25 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Corinne Saunders).
26 The Poetry of John Gower (R. F. Yeager).
Part III Post-Chaucerian and Fifteenth-Century Poetry.
Contexts.
27 England in the Long Fifteenth Century (Matthew Woodcock).
28 Poetic Language in the Fifteenth Century (A. S. G. Edwards).
29 Manuscript and Print: Books, Readers and Writers (Julia Boffey).
Poets and Poems.
30 Hoccleve and Lydgate (Daniel Wakelin).
31 Women and Writing (C. Annette Grisé).
32 Medieval Scottish Poetry (Douglas Gray).
33 Courtiers and Courtly Poetry (Barry Windeatt).
34 Drama: Sacred and Secular (Pamela King).
Epilogue: Afterlives of Medieval English Poetry (Corinne Saunders).
Index.
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