Companion vol.: Chaucer to Spenser--a critical reader.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Chronological table of dates -- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) -- William Langland (fl. 1375-1380) -- The letters of John Ball (1381) -- John Trevisa (d. 1402) -- The Wycliffite Bible (c. 1380-c. 1400) -- 'The Gawain-poet' (fl. 1390) -- John Gower (d. 1408) -- Mandeville's travels (c. 1390-1400) -- The cloud of unknowing (c. 13990-1400) -- Julian (Juliana) of Norwich (1342-c. 1418) -- The alliterative Morte Arthur -- William Thorpe (fl. 1407) -- Nicholas Love (fl. 1410) -- Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426) -- John Lydgate (1371-1449) -- Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1440) -- Charles of Orleans (1394-1465) -- Anonymous songs and short poems, religious, comic and amatory -- Love-poems (by women?) from the Finders manuscript -- Popular ballads -- Reginald Pecock (c. 1392/5-c. 1460?) -- The Paston letters -- Sir John Fortescue (c. 1395-c. 1477) -- Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1410-1471) -- William Caxton (c. 1422-1492) -- Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c. 1505) -- William Dunbar (c. 1456-c. 1515) -- Gavin Douglas (c. 1475-1522) -- Stephen Hawes (d. after 1521) -- John Skelton (c. 1460-1529) -- The first English life of Henry V (1513) -- Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) -- Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546) -- William Tyndale (1494-1536) -- Simon Fish (c. 1500-1531) -- William Roper (1496-1577) -- Sir David Lindsay (c. 1486-1555) -- George Cavendish (c. 1499-c. 1562) -- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) -- John Leland (c. 1506-1552) -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) -- Hugh Latimer (1491-1555) -- Roger Ascham (1515-1568) -- A mirror for magistrates (second edition, 1563) -- John Foxe (1517-1587) -- George Gascoigne (1539-1578) -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) -- Textual variants -- Glossary of common hard words.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Derek Pearsall's major new anthology of English writing provides substantial representation of the work of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, Malory, Henryson, Skelton, More, Wyatt and Spenser and many other major writers of the period 1375-1575, not in isolation but in the full context of non-dramatic writing during these two centuries, so that the book can act as the student medieval 'reader' ... The anthology as a whole is organized to build, through its texts and apparatus, a solid first-hand understanding of two hundred years of English literary culture ..."--Back cover.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700.
English literature-- Middle English, 1100-1500.
Civilization.
English literature-- Early modern.
English literature-- Middle English.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Great Britain, Civilization, 1066-1485, Sources.
Great Britain, Civilization, 16th century, Sources.