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Gerald Morgan

The Shaping of English Poetry

Essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser

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This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented by its final flowering in two essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three on Piers Plowman. The renewal of English letters in the fourteenth century, inspired by continental models in French and Italian, is represented by four essays on Chaucer. The poetic achievement of these three medieval masters remains unmatched until Spenser announces himself in a third great age i… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-03911-956-1
  • EAN: 9783039119561
  • Produktnummer: 19680684
  • Verlag: Lang, Peter
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 299 S.
  • Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.2 cm 451 g
  • Gewicht: 451

Über den Autor


The Author: Gerald Morgan was a Meyricke Exhibitioner at Jesus College, Oxford, and holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness (1991) and The Tragic Argument of Troilus and Criseyde (2005). He has published widely on English literature from Beowulf to Spenser.

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