{"product_id":"poetry-from-chaucer-to-spenser-isbn-9780631229872","title":"Poetry from Chaucer to Spenser","description":"Opening with extracts from Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and closing with Spenser's \u003ci\u003eShepherd's Calendar\u003c\/i\u003e, this concise collection introduces readers to some of the most influential poetry produced between the mid-fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a concise selection of the most important late medieval poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdeal for general readers, or for students needing a digest of the poetry of the period.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces readers to the lives of the poets, their major works, and the historical context in which they were written.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Series Editor's Preface. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Canterbury Tales:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe General Prologue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. William Langland (fl.1375-80):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vision of Piers Plowman (C-Text) (extracts).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePassus III.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePassus V.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePassus VI.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Gawain-Poet (fl. 1390):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight: Fit 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Robert Henryson (c. 1430-c. 1505):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Testament of Cresseid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fox and the Wolf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wolf and the Wether.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. William Dunbar (c. 1456-c. 1515):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeditation in Winter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChrist in Triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Golden Targe (extracts).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Treatise of the Two Married Women and the Widow (extracts).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Timor Mortis Conturbat Me'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbor'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Who-so list to hunt, I knowe where is an hynde'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Madame, withouten many wordes';.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Marvaill no more all-tho'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘To wish and want and not obtain'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Some-tyme I fled the fyre that me brent'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The furyous gonne is his rajing yre'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘My lute, awake! perfourme the last'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In eternum I was ons determed'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘To cause accord or to agre'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘You that in love finde lucke and habundaunce'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘What rage is this? what furour of what kynd?'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Is it possible?'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Forget not yet the tryde entent'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Blame not my lute for he must sownde'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘What shulde I saye'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I abide and abide and better abide'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Stond who-so list upon the slipper toppe'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Throughout the world, if it wer sought'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In court to serve decked with freshe aray'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘When raging love with extreme payne'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Set me wheras the sonne doth perche the grene'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Love, that doth raine and live within my thought'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Alas, so all thinges nowe do holde their peace'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Geve place, ye lovers, here before'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpitaph for Wyatt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Edmund Spenser (1552-99):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom The Shepherd's Calender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJanuary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of titles and first lines.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDerek Pearsall\u003c\/b\u003e is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965-85.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDuncan Wu\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e  Readers seeking a first introduction to the classic texts of English literature will welcome these short, pocket-sized collections. Each book in the series contains a selection of the most significant poetry or drama from a particular period. Traditional favourites are placed alongside less well-known titles, reflecting the ways in which the literary canon has changed in recent years. 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