English Poets in the Late Middle Ages
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Chaucer
Confessio Amantis
Conte Du Graal
Dante's Vita Nuova
Dante’s Vita Nuova
Edward III
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Good Life
Gower
Guillaume De Machaut
hoccleve
Hoccleve's Poetry
Hoccleve’s Poetry
Lady Meed
Langland
Le Clerc
Libro De Buen Amor
literary interpretation methods
Lybeaus Desconus
manuscript culture studies
medieval autobiographical verse
medieval English literature
Middle English poetry
narrative structure analysis
Past Tenses
Pearl Maiden
piers
plowman
poetic form in late medieval England
privy
Privy Seal Clerks
Punctus Elevatus
Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
Rhyme Royal Stanza
Saint Erkenwald
seal
sir
Sir Thopas
Squire's Tale
Squire’s Tale
St Erkenwald
tales
thomas
Thomas Hoccleve
thopas
Vita Nuova
Voir Dit
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138110267
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but most of them concentrate on particular English poems, such as Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Hoccleve's Series. Although some of the essays take account of the poet's life and times ('Chaucer as Petitioner', 'Hoccleve and the 'Court''), most are mainly concerned with the meaning and structure of the poems. What, for example, does the hero of Ipomadon hope to achieve by fighting, as he always does, incognito? Why do the stories in Piers Plowman all peter out so inconclusively? And how can it be that the narrator in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess so persistently fails to understand what he is told?
John A. Burrow is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.
