Morgan, Gerald, 1942-
The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser [electronic resource] / Gerald Morgan. - Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2010. - xiii, 299 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales -- A defence of Dorigen's complaint -- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner -- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues -- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene -- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Gawain and the Grene Knight.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Electronic books.
PR313 / .M67 2010eb
821/.109
The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser [electronic resource] / Gerald Morgan. - Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2010. - xiii, 299 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales -- A defence of Dorigen's complaint -- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner -- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues -- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene -- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Gawain and the Grene Knight.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Electronic books.
PR313 / .M67 2010eb
821/.109