| Description |
ix, 274 pages 19 cm |
| Physical Medium |
8vo. rdabf |
| Note |
"Supersedes my introduction to English medieval literature, published in 1914 and now out of print."--Preface. |
| Bibliography |
"Notes" including bibliography: p. [245]-267. |
| Contents |
The Middle Age: The middle age as a period. The medieval language and the medieval languages. Other approaches -- The Epic Centuries, Anglo-Saxon literature: Beowulf. Bede. The Caedmonic poems and Cynewulf. The end of the Anglo-Saxon period -- Medieval romance, literary motives: The spread of Romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's history. Cycles of romance. The Grail legend -- Medieval romance, literary forms: Lay and tale. Exemplum. Saint's legend. Unified short story. Chretien de Troyes. Anti-romance, Beast tale, Fabliau -- Middle English romances, distinctive and conventional: Popularized romances: King Horn. Havelock, the Dane. Sir Tristrem. Sir Perceval of Galles. Conventional romances: Libeaus Desconus. Sir Bevis of Hampton. Guy of Warwick. Romancing of recent history -- Middle-English Arthurian romances: The stanzaic Morte d'Arthur. The alliterative Morte Arthure. Gawain and the Green Knight. Malory's Morte d'Arthur -- Medieval lyric -- Medieval symbolism: Moral allegory, Piers Plowman. Mystical allegory, Pearl. Symbolism as a medieval habit -- Middle-English popular composition: Ballads. Miracle plays. Prose -- Chaucer: Biography. Development of verse narrative. Troilus and Criseyde. The scheme of the Canterbury tales, Gower's confessio amantis. The Decameron. The seven sages. Chaucer's pilgrimage setting. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Littérature anglaise (CaQQLa)201-0053951 -- 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) (CaQQLa)201-0053951 -- Histoire et critique.
(CaQQLa)201-0377571
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English literature -- Middle English.
(OCoLC)fst01710961
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| Chronological Term |
1100 - 1500
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935. Three medieval centuries of literature in England, 1100-1400. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1932 (OCoLC)573953328 |
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