Research Catalog

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.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Book/TextUse in library JFE 10-5631Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description
xiii, 299 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales
  • Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene
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
View in Legacy Catalog