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The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser
- Title
- The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser / Gerald Morgan.
- Author
- Morgan, Gerald, 1942-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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- Description
- xiii, 299 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales -- A defence of Dorigen's complaint -- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner -- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues -- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene -- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-5631
- ISBN
- 9783039119561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 3039119567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009045006
- OCLC
- YBP 2009045006
- Author
- Morgan, Gerald, 1942-
- Title
- The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser / Gerald Morgan.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-5631