The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
Hary was his name, surname, or simply a nickname; and the dates of his birth and death all remain conjec- tural. The Accounts of ...
d’Emilia (Theseid, or on the nuptials of Emily). However, it was after his return to Florence that he composed his masterpiece, ...
added the lines “A plume in his helmet, / a sword at his knee,” (l. 10) leaving little doubt that Bonnie George is prepared for ...
Campion defends his form and subject matter in his preface to the collection. He describes the ayre as the musical equivalent of ...
Of pivotal signifi cance, however, is the French Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose), of which a partial English translation ...
he fi nally becomes aware of “a man in blak” (l. 445) who is standing with his back to “an ook, an huge tree” (l. 447). It takes ...
insight he or she has gained. Chaucer’s text, however, noticeably omits any such explanation about just what made the Narrator’s ...
BRUCE, THE (THE BRUS) JOHN BARBOUR (ca. 1376) The Bruce, JOHN BARBOUR’s only surviving text, stands as the fi rst preserved lite ...
confront the English in “playne fechting” (open fi ght- ing, 9.750). Randolph does not comprehend the Scot- tish reality yet, th ...
bling lines from The DREAM OF THE ROOD, a DREAM VISION written in the West Saxon dialect of OLD ENGLISH. The craftsman Drahmal ( ...
that the Crucifi xion is already present at the moment of incarnation. Southwell’s furnace recalls the fi ery furnace in Daniel ...
C D 97 “CÆDMON’S HYMN” CÆDMON (seventh century) Generally considered the oldest poem written in English, “Cædmon’s Hymn” is foun ...
individual groupings of poems, recurrent preoccupa- tions, and favored addressees are certainly perceptible, it might best be co ...
paign against France, during which time a set of fi ve of his poems were appended to an edition of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’s ASTROPHIL ...
tellers, sometimes startlingly so, often building upon descriptions begun in the General Prologue. Some contain references to ot ...
“The Merchant’s Tale,” and “The Merchant’s Epilogue.” Both of these tales concern marriage, one an idealized portrait in which m ...
based on a story from Ovid—the story of Phoebus and the crow, a tale-telling bird. Ultimately it becomes a warning about the dan ...
Brewer, Derek. A New Introduction to Chaucer. 2nd ed. Lon- don: Routledge, 1998. ———, ed. Chaucer: The Critical Heritage. Vol. 1 ...
CAROL (CAROLE) The carol is a medieval verse form commonly associated with religious, espe- cially Christmas, songs, but also co ...
is also debatable. If the Casket Letters are the work of her detractors, then by the manipulation of the queen’s voice, a level ...
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