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Michael Swanton.
English Poetry before Chaucer.
Publisher: Exeter U.P., 2002 (previous edition was published by Longman, 1987, under the title English Literature before Chaucer).
Series: Exeter Medieval English Texts & Studies.
ISBN 0859896331;
ISBN-13: 9780859896337.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK: Antony Rowe, Chippenham.
Size: 155×232×25mm.
Page count: ix,379pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: this copy is not shrink-wrapped so shows some evidence of long-term storage, the usual mild scuffs etc.

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Weight without packaging: 742g.

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Please note: this is a literary study and does not include an anthology of texts.

Presents a new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England.

Contents:
1. Introduction: Anxiety and Assertion
2. Until the Dragon Comes:
Widsith, Deor, Waldere, The Fight at Finnsburh and Beowulf
3. Verbum de Verbo:
Cædmon’s Creation Hymn, Genesis A, Exodus and The Dream of the Rood
4. The Ruin of Time:
The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Ruin and The Phoenix
5. A Certain Heroism:
Guthlac A, Judith, The Battle of Maldon and Layamon’s Brut
6. Things That Falleth to Ribaudrie:
Havelok, Sir Tristrem, Floris and Blancheflour and Madam Sirith and the Weeping Bitch
7. Song and Singer:
I Walk with Sorrow, Lenten is Come with Love to Town, The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale, Thomas of Hales’ Love-Song, Gabriel’s Greeting to the Virgin Mary, Ubi Sount Qui Ante Nos Fuerount, The Follies of Fashion, A Song of Lewes, The Thrush and Nightingale and The Owl and the Nightingale.

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