The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600

accepted interpretation is a generally biographical reading wherein the hunter is Wyatt himself and the hind is Anne Boleyn, rum ...

visited the Scandinavian tribes of the far north as well as the Middle Eastern homes of the Israelites and Per- sians. Clearly h ...

In wifhode I wol use mine instrument As frely as my makere hath it sent. ... Mine housbonde shal it have both eve and morwe, Wha ...

In bed that night, the knight is distressed, though the old woman is merry. She asks why he is upset, and he replies, “thou art ...

debates about the nature of that term. More problemati- cally, the Wife is a character constructed by a male author—Chaucer. If ...

for a reciprocal relationship exists as well: The wife uses dual pronouns in her expression of grief to convey the relationship ...

any money to cover the expenses of her own burial, but she observes that her body, if left above ground, will be an “annoyance” ...

having found a way to retain the appearance of virgin- ity despite having lost it. Finally, the skilled rhetoric of the seducer ...

to gain favor and position at the royal court, where, instead of showing proper discretion (l. 40), he fell prey to prodigality, ...

yard of St. Paul’s. At the turn of the 16th century, Fleet Street was already a center for the bookbinding and bookselling trade ...

securely Protestant realm, Elizabeth had every reason to believe that she was “on top” and would remain there. During the reign ...

Though it is diffi cult to pin down an exact genre for Wulf and Eadwacer, the most accepted interpretations place it as an ELEGY ...

son, a SCOP telling her tale, and a fi gment of the speak- er’s overheated imagination. The general subject matter has also been ...

An innovative experimenter with verse forms, Wyatt has been credited with introducing (or re-introducing) the ITALIAN (PETRARCHA ...

The differences in style and tone between this and Surrey’s other poems have led critics to a variety of interpretations. Earlie ...

C D 481 “YE THAT PASEN BY THE WEYE” ANONY- MOUS (ca. 1372) Taking as its starting point the bibli- cal passage Lamentations 1:12 ...

Aneirin praises the virtues of death in battle and pro- motes the value of the eternal fame gained through loy- alty and selfl e ...

C D 483 ZEUGMA From the Greek meaning “yoking,” a zeugma is a rhetorical fi gure in which one word refers to or governs two or m ...

C D appendiX i GLOSSARY accent The stress on one or another syllable, espe- cially when poetry is read aloud. accentual verse A ...

Appendix i 485 elegy A poem mourning someone’s death. ellipsis Part of a statement left out, unspoken. end rhyme A rhyme at the ...