02487nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10600448 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 091023s2010 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2009045006 9783039119561 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9783039119561 9783035300321 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)812915060 PR313 .M67 2010eb 821/.109 22 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 Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10600448 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 194748 194748