The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
who seems to represent Sidney’s wife, Barbara, while “the knight that loves me best” (l. 8) and who “griefs livery wears” (l. 16 ...
lady both acting inappropriately, and with the implica- tion that they would be wiser to act in sympathy with nature and come to ...
exposed as hopelessly insubstantial; in the case of beauty, for instance, we are provided the classical example of Helen of Troy ...
cal holdings. He also supported the right of the Crown to levy taxes on church holdings. This garnered him powerful court suppor ...
rhetoric of a courtroom defense oration. Still, others, because of its reliance on the Bible, see the poem as a serious avowal o ...
STANZA, the mother asks whom he met there. The response is “my true-love” (l. 7), and again he says he is weary and wants to lie ...
straw” upon her head which confi rms the PASTORAL set- ting. Using agrarian language, the narrator observes that while her beaut ...
declare its more labored and challenging verse to be decidedly “un-Shakespearean” in style and tone. FURTHER READING Burrow, Col ...
restrained under a polished veneer. Tottel’s edits make that bitterness more obvious. Tottel directly calls the departure of one ...
ciated with the disease are all illuminated in Arcite’s love for Emilye. He has the sunken eyes (“eyen holwe”), the jaundiced co ...
returning to iambs: “Clad in the arms.. .”; “Sweet is the death” (ll. 3 and 14). Most lines are smooth, pre- dictable, and compo ...
The poem begins with a conversation between a man and a woman: He asks her if he may lie in her lap, and she invites him to nap. ...
translate GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO’s De casibus virorum illus- trium from Laurent de Premierfait’s French rendition. The FALL OF PRINC ...
C D 259 “MADAM, WITHOUTEN MANY WORDS” SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503–1542) The speaker of this lyric presents his proposition up front a ...
“MAIDEN IN THE MOR LAY” ANONYMOUS (14th century) This enigmatic 14th-century Middle English lyric has delighted and perplexed cr ...
tion of phrases. Otherwise, the maiden’s actions reveal her involvement with the fairy realm. She is unifi ed with nature throug ...
CONFESSIO AMANTIS), it has been suggested that Chaucer here criticizes Gower’s version of the story, and this is why Gower remov ...
focus to the Roman emperor, who had learned of the slaughter of his Christian retinue in Syria and the dis- honor done to his da ...
been written by hand and not printed. Before the invention of the printing press, all texts were so writ- ten; thus, the majorit ...
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564–1593) Born in Canterbury in 1564, Christopher Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker. In January 1579, he ...
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