TY - BOOK AU - Morgan,Gerald ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser AV - PR313 .M67 2010eb U1 - 821/.109 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Langland, William, KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Spenser, Edmund, KW - Gawain and the Grene Knight KW - English poetry KW - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10600448 ER -