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In "The Canterbury Tales" Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. -- Text...
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John Lydgate's importance for the history of English literature is assured by his contribution to the literary culture of the fifteenth century. He maintained a Chaucerian ideal of style, applying poetic form to current events and diffusing literary and historical knowledge by means of his verse compilations. He was not so much a creator as a preserver, combining the functions of author, scribe and librarian.--Jacket
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The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.The poems are primarily lyrical rather than narrative. Terry's readable translation includes the magnificent cosmological poem Völuspá ("The Sibyl's Prophecy"), didactic...
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"This handsome anthology of Latin poetry from the late eighth to the tenth century serves several purposes. In presenting texts of 62 poems with translations on facing pages, it make a neglected body of literature accessible both to students of the Middle Ages and to general readers. And in offering an 80-page critical account of the poetry, it provides a welcome introduction to the literature of the courts of Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and Charles...
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The Scottish poet, Robert Henryson, is no slavish 'Chaucerian', but occupies an independent place in that remarkable literary achievement which sees out the Middle Ages in Scotland. This selection includes his two major works and the representative best of his others. The texts have been edited afresh and the volume is provided with an introduction, selected criticism, notes and a glossary.
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