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W. F. Bolton, ed.
The Middle Ages.
Published London: Sphere Books, 1970.
Series: Sphere History of Literature in the English Language, vol. 1.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury; Acorn Litho, Feltham.
Size: 108x177x19mm.
Page count: xxxvii,413pp (please note, the pages are misnumbered in all copies of this edition; after p. xxxvii, the main body of the book starts at p. 9).
Main language: English; quotations mostly given with side glosses.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are a bit scuffed, a bit of wear at the edges and corners; covers and pages yellowed with age; the spine is a bit wrinkled but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking. 

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Weight without packaging: 289g.

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Contents:
Bolton, Intro — conditions of literary composition in medieval England;
Cross, Old English period;
Shepherd, Early Middle English literature;
Williams, Alliterative poetry in the 14th & 15th cc.;
Bolton, Chaucer’s life;
Pearsall, Canterbury Tales;
Brewer, Troilus & Criseyde;
Hussey, Chaucer — minor poems & the prose;
Woolf, Later poetry — the popular tradition;
Gray, Later poetry — the courtly tradition;
Blake, Late medieval prose.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: at end of each essay
Index: yes

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