Chaucer and Langland

Chaucer and Langland
Title Chaucer and Langland PDF eBook
Author John M. Bowers
Publisher
Pages 432
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN

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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.

Ricardian Poetry

Ricardian Poetry
Title Ricardian Poetry PDF eBook
Author John Anthony Burrow
Publisher
Pages 165
Release 1992-01-01
Genre English poetry
ISBN 9780140159066

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English Poets in the Late Middle Ages

English Poets in the Late Middle Ages
Title English Poets in the Late Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author John A. Burrow
Publisher Routledge
Pages 516
Release 2018-02-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351219324

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This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but most of them concentrate on particular English poems, such as Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Hoccleve's Series. Although some of the essays take account of the poet's life and times ('Chaucer as Petitioner', 'Hoccleve and the 'Court''), most are mainly concerned with the meaning and structure of the poems. What, for example, does the hero of Ipomadon hope to achieve by fighting, as he always does, incognito? Why do the stories in Piers Plowman all peter out so inconclusively? And how can it be that the narrator in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess so persistently fails to understand what he is told?

Piers the Ploughman

Piers the Ploughman
Title Piers the Ploughman PDF eBook
Author William Langland
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 375
Release 2006-01-26
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0141960922

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Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

William Langland's "Piers Plowman"

William Langland's
Title William Langland's "Piers Plowman" PDF eBook
Author William Langland
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 304
Release 1996-12
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780812215618

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"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum

Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire

Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire
Title Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire PDF eBook
Author Jill Mann
Publisher
Pages
Release 1973
Genre
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The Pilgrim and the Book

The Pilgrim and the Book
Title The Pilgrim and the Book PDF eBook
Author Julia Bolton Holloway
Publisher Julia Bolton Holloway
Pages 352
Release 1992
Genre History
ISBN 9780820420905

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Julia Bolton Holloway's The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer investigates major fourteenth-century texts, the Commedia, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales, in the light of the medieval theory and practice of pilgrimage, especially concentrating on Emmaus and Exodus paradigms. Holloway's analysis draws extensively on iconography, musicology, typology and anthropology. The concluding chapter explains why each poet places himself within his poem - in his own image - as a pilgrim.