{"product_id":"shaping-of-english-poetry-volume-iii","title":"Shaping of English Poetry- Volume III","description":"This third volume of essays under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Shaping of English Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e includes, as in the previous volumes, essays on \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser; it also includes essays on \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and Dante. It was never the author’s intention to exclude Old English poetry from the historical continuum of English poetry, and practical rather than ideological considerations explain the absence of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e from the two previous volumes. The language of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is in all essentials the language of \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, in one and the same native alliterative tradition, and also the language of Chaucer, in the European tradition inherited from the great French and Italian poets. The transition from \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e to Dante may seem abrupt, but the poetry of Chaucer, whose assimilation of Italian influences is both formidable and remarkable, requires us to make it. Indeed, the exploration in this volume of Dante’s exposition of love in the \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e takes us to the heart of the poetry that we associate with the period of Chaucer’s greatness in the 1380s and 1390s. Here we see not an anachronistic system of courtly love, imposed on medieval poems by modern critics, but distinctions of natural, sensitive and rational love that make sense (among other things) of the ending of \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e as the poem’s logical and persuasive conclusion.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223063089496,"sku":"9783034309158","price":68.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783034309158_11372319-08fd-431e-a532-e9054b35b45d.jpg?v=1767424534","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shaping-of-english-poetry-volume-iii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}