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| Genre/Form: | Dictionaries Biography Dictionaries Biobibliographie Biographies Dictionnaires anglais Biographies Dictionnaires Dictionnaires anglais |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Helterman; Jerome Mitchell |
| ISBN: | 0810357070 9780810357075 |
| OCLC Number: | 30783348 |
| Notes: | "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
| Description: | xi, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Old English literature: an introduction. OLD ENGLISH WRITERS: Aelfric -- King Alfred -- Bede -- Caedmon -- Cynewulf. OLD ENGLISH WORKS: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- The Battle of Maldon -- Beowulf -- The Blickling Homilies -- The Germanic epic and Old English heroic poetry: Widsith, Waldere, and The Fight at Finnsburg -- Judith -- The Old English riddles -- The Wanderer and The Seafarer. Middle English literature: an introduction. MIDDLE ENGLISH WRITERS: John Barbour -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Dunbar -- The Gawain-Poet -- Geoffrey of Monmouth -- John Gower -- Robert Henryson -- Walter Hilton -- Thomas Hoccleve -- Julian of Norwich -- Margery Kempe -- William Langland -- Layamon -- John Lydgate -- Sir Thomas Malory -- Sir John Mandeville -- Robert Mannyng -- Dan Michel of Northgate -- John Mirk -- Richard Rolle -- John Trevisa -- Thomas Usk -- Robert ("Maistre") Wace -- John Wyclif. MIDDLE ENGLISH WORKS: The Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur -- Ancrene Riwle -- The Breton Lays -- The Castle of Perseverance -- The Chester plays -- Cursor Mundi -- The matter of England -- The matter of Rome -- The Middle English lyric -- Morality plays: Mankind and Everyman -- N-town plays -- The Owl and the Nightingale -- The Paston Letters -- The South English Legendary -- The Towneley plays -- The York cycle. APPENDIXES: The English language: 410 to 1500 -- The Celtic background to medieval English literature -- Anglo-Norman liteature in the development of Middle English literature. |
| Series Title: | Dictionary of literary biography, v. 146. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell. |
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