Poetry from Chaucer to Spenser
based on "Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 - 1575"
Blackwell Essential Literature
1. Auflage August 2002
190 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Opening with extracts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and closing with Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, this concise collection introduces readers to some of the most influential poetry produced between the mid-fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries.
* * Provides a concise selection of the most important late medieval poetry.
* Ideal for general readers, or for students needing a digest of the poetry of the period.
* Introduces readers to the lives of the poets, their major works, and the historical context in which they were written.
Introduction.
1. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400).
2. William Langland (fl.1375-80).
3. The Gawain-Poet (fl. 1390).
4. Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c. 1505).
5. William Dunbar (c. 1456-c. 1515).
6. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42).
7. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47).
8. Edmund Spenser (1552-99).
Index of titles and first lines.
University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for
Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85.
Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford,
and University Lecturer in English Literature.