The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600

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British Poetry michelle m. Sauer t h e fa c t s o n f i le C o m p a n i o n t o C D Before 1600 ...

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introduction iv acknowledgments xiii Journal aBBreviations xiv entries a to Z 1 aPPendixes i. glossary 484 ii. selected Bibliogr ...

iv C D How to Use tHis Book The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600 is part of a four-volume set on British po ...

introDuCtion v latin, anglo-Norman, Welsh, middle Scots, and other languages. i hope, then, that i can be forgiven the term Brit ...

vi introDuCtion work. Scholars continue to debate the correctness of each term, and both are commonly employed. in order to clar ...

introDuCtion vii however, have been able to piece together a general view of Old english meter. The basic rhyme scheme was allit ...

viii introDuCtion different about Old english itself—the lexicon (word bank) was limited, and although it expanded through vario ...

introDuCtion ix knights); the matter of england (english and Germanic heroes); the matter of France (charlemagne); the matter of ...

x introDuCtion english chaucerians, such as Thomas hoccleve and John lydgate. Both wrote in middle english and in a variety of g ...

introDuCtion xi classical literature provided a great deal of inspi- ration during the Tudor age, providing models for the reinv ...

xii introDuCtion years after its composition, and the Book of Margery Kempe (ca. late 14th–early 15th century), a prose spiri- t ...

xiii C D This project was infinitely rewarding, and i have seen positive effects on my teaching already. First, my thanks must g ...

C D JournAl AbbrevIA tIons ANQ American Notes & Queries ELH English Literary History ELR English Literary Renaissance ES Eng ...

C A D 1 ACCENTUAL VERSE Rhythm deriving from stress falling or not falling on a syllable, rather than on the length (quantity) o ...

long period of time comes out as something less than the torture of the damned: “Four thousand winter thoughte he not too long” ...

Finally, Whitney tells the story of Hero, a woman who, unlike the other women cited in the poem, mea- sured her man before she t ...

Stanza 3 recalls the 150-mile trek of Henry’s forces across northern France and the crossing of the Somme at an unguarded place ...

ALBA The term alba, or “dawn song,” comes from the Occitan regions of southern France. The verse form varies, but the subject ma ...