The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
MARY I (1516–1558) queen of England Mary Tudor was born in 1516 to King HENRY VIII and his fi rst wife, Catherine of Aragon, who ...
Mary is the undisputed author of a number of letters that are increasingly studied as fi ne examples of the epistolary genre. Sh ...
is speaking to Wisdom, rather than Philosophy, and the subject matter of the verses often deals directly with the greatness of G ...
fi cations. He emphasizes the Faery Queene’s “approch” (l. 7), which causes Petrarch’s soul to weep. This initial focus on the I ...
author and a translator. The content of the preface may also be important in understanding key aspects of Alfred’s reign as king ...
Compounding was still used to create new words, as was affi xing, blending (combinations of two existing words), and clipping (r ...
The varied assortment of the lyrics includes the most concentrated poetry of the period, and brevity intensi- fi es the emotions ...
types of Middle English lyric poetry: the secular and the sacred. While the great bulk of this type of poetry is sacred, there e ...
FURTHER READING Chism, Christine. Alliterative Revivals. Philadelphia: Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Duncan, Thomas ...
One Saturday while John is out of town, Nicholas and Alisoun fi nally put their plan into action. Nicholas hides in his room ove ...
animals—a weasel, colt, kid, calf, mouse, etc. She is described only externally, even more of a “fl at” character than the men, ...
PAEAN to the simple country life—hunting, hawking, study, and a kind of freedom (though he is constrained to admit the “clog” at ...
literary mirrors have typically presented positive exam- ples for readers to follow, but A Mirror for Magistrates’s title relies ...
traditional fi gures for reading as a morally edifying activity. First, he compares the diligent reader who can glean “ane moral ...
such conclusions with any certainty, and instead focus on discursive aspects, such as the allegorical method itself or the reali ...
tional medieval way of interpreting stories and a more modern conception of authorship. See also ALLEGORY, MORALL FABILLIS (OVER ...
represent Scottish nobles: James III was kidnapped and held prisoner during the Lauder Rebellion (1482). See also ALLEGORY, MORA ...
that those in power can hear honest criticism. Mum, however, argues that fl attering those in power is far more practical—and lu ...
Although its theme is quite conventional, the poem is notable for the subtle treatment of the speaker’s posi- tion, which is exp ...
a painting, instead of the lively lute in music. Overall, this is a dark and gloomy work, relating the death of love, love poetr ...
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