English literature before Chaucer / Michael Swanton
1987, 1st edition. London ; New York : Longman. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #426102
ISBN: 0582492424
Physical description; xii, 355 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; "Notes on individual writers, works and sources"--Page [319]-344. Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-318) and index. Contents; Introduction : Anxiety and Assertion -- Until the Dragon Comes : Widsith, Deor, Waldere, The Fight at Finnsburh, and Beowulf -- Verbum de Verbo : Caedmon's Creation-Hymn, Genesis A, Exodus, and The Dream of the Rood -- The Ruin of Time : The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Ruin, and The Phoenix -- An Assured Heroism : Guthlac A, Judith, The Battle of Maldon, and Lazamon's Brut -- Things That Falleth to Ribaudrie : Havelok the Dane, Sir Tristrem, Floris and Blancheflour, and Dame Sirith and the Weeping Bitch -- The Singer and the Song : I Walk with Sorrow, Lenten is Come with Love to Town, The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale, Thomas of Hale's Love-Song, Gabriel's Greeting to the Virgin Mary, Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount, The Follies of Fashion, A Song of Lewes, The Thrush and the Nightingale, and The Owl and the Nightingale. Subjects; Geschichte 1100-1350. 450-1500. English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. English poetry Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism. Poetry in Old English Critical studies. English literature 1066-1400. Poetry in Old English. Poetry. Literature.
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