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The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser

by Morgan, Gerald,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Peter Lang, (Oxford ; | New York :) Physical details: xiii, 299 p.
Subject(s): 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 -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. | English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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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.

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