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"This book, first published in the Longman Annotated Anthologies of English Verse series under the general editorship of Professor Alastair Fowler, provides a representative cross-section of non-dramatic English and Scottish poetry between 1300 and 1500 in freshly-edited texts with full annotation. John Burrow has chosen complete poems wherever possible, and substantial single extracts from works too long to give in full. The total of 7000 lines includes...
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Synopsis: Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. Introduces...
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"This is an anthology of modern verse translations of English poetry of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In a very full selection about half the space is devoted to short poems, including religious and secular lyrics as well as moral, political, polemical, and comic verse. The other half contains short narrative poems, and of these 'Pearl', the longest and most important, ranks among the finest elegies in English. In addition to 'Patience',...
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The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and...
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