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The Shaping of English Poetry Essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Langland Chaucer and Spenser 1st Edition by Gerald Morgan ISBN 3039119567 978-3039119561

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Author(s): Gerald Morgan
ISBN(s): 9783039119561, 3039119567
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 3039119567 

ISBN 13: 978-3039119561

Author:  Gerald Morgan

This collection of essays is conceived not as a summary of past endeavours but as the beginning of an attempt to present a sense of the wholeness of a distinctively English literature from Beowulf to Spenser. The native alliterative tradition of England is represented by its final flowering in two essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and three on Piers Plowman. The renewal of English letters in the fourteenth century, inspired by continental models in French and Italian, is represented by four essays on Chaucer. The poetic achievement of these three medieval masters remains unmatched until Spenser announces himself in a third great age in the history of English poetry and this is represented by three essays on the first three books of The Faerie Queene. Spenser’s indebtedness to Langland and Chaucer, and his philosophical conservatism in drawing on the thought of Aristotle and the tradition of medieval commentary surrounding the works of Aristotle, ensure that the tradition of English poetry in the Renaissance is securely rooted in its medieval inheritance.

Table of contents: 

  1. The Action of the Hunting and Bedroom Scenes

  2. The Meaning of Kind Wit Conscience and Reason

  3. The Status and Meaning of Meed in the First Vision

  4. The Universality of the Portraits in the General Prologue

  5. Rhetorical Perspectives in the General Prologue

  6. A Defence of Dorigens Complaint

  7. The Self-Revealing Tendencies of Chaucer’s Pardoner

  8. Holiness as the First of Spenser’s Aristotelian Moral Virtues

  9. The Idea of Temperance in the Second Book

  10. The Meaning of Spenser’s Chastity as the Fairest of Virtues

  11. Index

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