Chaucer to Spenser: a Critical Reader
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish date: 08/01/1999
Description:
This major new anthology of English writing represents the work of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, Malory, Henryson, Skelton, More, Wyatt, Spenser, and other major writers of the period 1375-1575. It presents the works not in isolation but in the full context of non-dramatic writing during these two centuries, resulting in a complete medieval reader. The collection includes not just the canonical literary texts, but all writing of literary, interest, including accounts of inquisitions and speeches from the scaffold. No attempt is made to define 'the late Middle Ages' or to draw a line under 'the Middle Ages'.
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All texts are newly edited from original sources, with occasional modification of spelling to remove misleadingly eccentric forms, and with hard words glossed at the side of the page.
The anthology provides, through its texts and apparatus, a solid first-hand understanding of 200 years of English literary culture.
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