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| english literature before chaucer summary: English Literature Before Chaucer Percy Goronwy Thomas, 1924 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: English Poetry Before Chaucer Michael Swanton, 2002 A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A Short History of English Literature George Saintsbury, 1898 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A Short History of English Literature George Saintsbury, Foreword by Mohit K. Ray, 2005 One Of The Pioneering Works In Literary Historiography, The Book A Short History Of English Literature Combines In A Remarkable Manner The Historical And The Critical Principles That Ought To Govern Any Literary History. On Saintbury S Own Testimony The Book Is Not Meant To Be Bird S Eye Views . It Is, In Fact, A Fine Critical Survey Of The Entire History Of English Literature From Its Beginning To The End Of The Victorian Period.Saintsbury S Copious Scholarship, Fine Clarity Of Thought And Literary Sensibility Have Made The Approach To Each Text Both Microscopic And Telescopic So That While A Text Is Kept Under A Sharp Critical Focus, All The Relevant Contextual Aspects Are Touched Upon To Further Illuminate It. Despite Saintsbury S Englishness, The Book, As A Short But Succinct Account Of The History Of Literature, Is Of Perennial Value. While Any Student Of English Literature Will Find The Book Immensely Useful, Anybody Interested In English Literature Will Find It Eminently Readable And Interesting. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: An Outline History of English Literature William Henry Hudson, 1999 The book has a wide coverage and studies all the famous writers of English literature in the field of poetry, fiction, essay etc. The writers covered, among others, include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel John Milton, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth and Alfred Tennyson. A special feature of the book is that studies writers and their contributions not in isolation but in the context of surroundings and various elements of civilisation of the age of the writer. Thus it suggests a vital relationship between English literature and English life. The book is written in a simple and lucid style. It will be found of great interest by the students of English Literature, researchers and the general readers. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Routledge History of Literature in English Ronald Carter, John McRae, 2001 This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Chaucer and Langland John M. Bowers, 2007 Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Geoffrey Chaucer in Context Ian Johnson, 2019-07-11 Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Beginnings of English Literature to Skelton, 1959 William Lindsay Renwick, Harold Orton, 1952 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Book of the Duchess Geoffrey Chaucer, 2022-08-10 The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: An Historical Summary of English Literature Edward William Edmunds, 1920 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Introductions to English Literature: The beginnings of English literature to Skelton, 1509, by W. L. Renwick and Harold Oeton , 1938 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer, 1775 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 2011-09-06 An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Five Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer, 2009-12-17 A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century Samuel Austin Allibone, 1892 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A short history of English literature. Repr George Edward B. Saintsbury, 1900 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The People’s Queen Vanora Bennett, 2010-08-05 Set in late fourteenth century England, Vanora Bennett's rich, dramatic new novel presents an England uncannily like our own. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Halleck's New English Literature Reuben Post Halleck, 2019-12-11 In Halleck's New English Literature, Reuben Post Halleck offers a comprehensive overview of English literature, tracing its evolution from its origins to contemporary works. The book is distinguished by its pedagogical approach, utilizing clear language and structured analyses that make complex literary concepts accessible to readers. Halleck contextualizes literature within historical, social, and cultural frameworks, ensuring that readers grasp not only the texts themselves but also their significance within the broader literary canon, from Beowulf to modern novels. Reuben Post Halleck was an educator and literary historian, deeply invested in the teaching of literature and language. His background in education, combined with his passion for literature, inspired him to create a text that serves both as an academic resource and as an engaging introduction for general readers. Halleck's insight into the interplay between literature and society allows readers to appreciate the nuances of literary movements and the evolution of narrative forms throughout the ages. Halleck's New English Literature is an essential read for students, educators, and literary enthusiasts alike. Its meticulous exploration of literary development offers invaluable insights for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of English literature. This work not only enhances literary appreciation but also cultivates a critical perspective on the texts that have shaped our cultural landscape. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: English Writers ...: The writers before Chaucer.-v. 2. pt. 1. From Chaucer to Dunbar Henry Morley, 1864 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Medieval English Literature William Paton Ker, 1955 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 Larry Scanlon, 2009-06-18 A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Works Geoffrey Chaucer, 1906 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Belden's Guide to Natural Science, History, Biography, and General Literature C. Belden, 1887 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Introductions to English and American Literature Bonamy Dobrée, 1952 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Academy , 1883 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Knight's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred W. 1859-1944 Pollard, 2022-10-27 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: From Chaucer to Tennyson Henry Augustin Beers, 1894 1890. With selections from thirty authors. Contents: From the Conquest to Chaucer; From Chaucer to Spenser; The Age of Shakspere; The Age of Milton; From the Restoration to the Death of Pope; From the Death of Pope to the French Revolution; From the French Revolution to the Death of Scott; and From the Death of Scott to the Present Time. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century Samuel Austin Allibone, 1891 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle , 1864 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Outlines of English and American Literature William J. Long, 2019-11-26 Outlines of English and American Literature by William J. Long. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Riverside Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Dean Benson, 2008 The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon.Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars, working for the first time with all thesource-material, to recreate Chaucer's authentic texts.For the third edition, an international team of experts completely re-edited all the works, added glosses to appear on the page with the text, andgreatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography, and glossary.In short, the Riverside Chaucer is the fruit of many years' study - the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's Complete Works. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation Robin Healey, 2011-12-15 Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors – Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, and Boccaccio – and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A Summary of the Literatures of Modern Europe , 1907 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: A Summary of the Literatures of Modern Europe (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain) from the Origins to 1400, Comp. and Arranged by Marian Edwardes Marian Edwardes, 1968 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: 20 More Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School and High School Joel E. McIntosh, 2023-04-21 Picking up where its companion, 20 Ideas, leaves off, 20 More Ideas offers lessons developed by master teachers across the nation. Excite your students with these creative ideas for teaching gifted kids at the secondary level. Just imagine the following scenarios: helping your students organize an evening dinner theater featuring a drama written and produced by your students, learning the ins and outs of interviewing, by allowing your students to conduct an interview with a historical figure (i.e., you in a powdered wig), arranging for local experts to come speak to students during lunch in a specially organized sandwich seminar, and encouraging your students to plan and participate in exotic travel around the world—without ever leaving your classroom. In this book, you will receive the best ideas and lessons for teachers of secondary gifted kids. This companion to the original 20 Ideas book features ideas for starting a mentorship program, teaching history using scientific surveys, using simulations to teach content, organizing historical debates, producing documentaries, and much more. Grades 5-12 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: The Fortnightly Review , 1871 |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Lyric Tactics Ingrid Nelson, 2016-12-02 What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they are found. Yet in Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational. Nelson looks at anonymous devotional and love poems that circulated in manuscripts of practical, religious, and literary material or were embedded in popular, courtly, and liturgical works. For her, the poems' abilities to participate in multiple modes of transmission are lyric tactics, responsive and contingent modes of practice that emerge in opposition to institutional or poetic norms. Working across the three languages of medieval England (English, French, and Latin), Nelson examines the tactics of poetic voice in the trilingual texts of British Library MS Harley 2253, which contains the well-known English Harley lyrics. In a study of the English hymns and French lyrics of the commonplace book of William Herebert, she unearths the moral implications of lyric tactics for the friars who produced and disseminated them. And last, she examines the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how his introduction of Continental poetic forms such as the balade and the rondeau suggests continuity with rather than a break from earlier English lyric. Combining literary analysis, manuscript studies, and cultural history with modern social theory, Ingrid Nelson demonstrates that medieval lyric poetry formed a crucial part of the fabric of later medieval English society. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Refugee Tales Ali Smith, Marina Lewycka, Patience Agbabi, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Chris Cleave, Stephen Collis, Inua Ellams, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Herd, Avaes Mohammed, Hubert Moore, Dragan Todorovic, Carol Watts, Michael Zand, 2016-05-31 Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering. |
| english literature before chaucer summary: Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer, 2008-11-13 Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs. |
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